AI helps me a lot to make my idea into things.
After more than a decade make a living on tech, this is the time where almost everyone can build and create things that they want. Awesome, i know. There’s no more barrier.
What make people interested is that AI offers instant answers. You give them the prompt and boom. You get something that you can see, and think ‘this is it’. You feel validated. I can sense it from here.
Building and creating now is far more easier than before. You can see how easy I create landing page on Lovable.
This can’t be done probably 5-10 years back. You need to have server, domain and at least a HTML and CSS skill to create. If i can look back, 15-20 years ago you need to slice the design from the designer. The design was created with Adobe Photoshop. I thank God that era is over.
With this kind of method of building website with AI (the jargon called “vibe coding”), everyone can build something for at least themselves with no skill (for now). The fundamental of building website still hasn’t change. Do we still need to understand the fundamental thing?
The answer is yes and no.
The answer is yes, if you want to be professional as vibe coder (damn i say professional) and you want to excel and be successful to build product that solving business problems build a technology in a very new way. Use AI as a tool to make your idea come true. Learn and earn from it. Learning fundamental also important to mitigate and managing the risks.
The answer is no, if you want it’s, just the result and outcome. You really give all the building responsibility to AI. Which can be costly if things get into bigger scale. And you don’t have problem with that.
Again, it’s all coming back to us to give some good taste and craftsmanship into things that we build.
As Steve Jobs says about craftsmanship:
There’s a tremendous amount of craftsmanship between a great idea and a great product… and it’s that process that is the magic.
https://youtu.be/Q3SQYGSFrJY?si=2fmhVAsmtSgT81ja
So, let’s give it a go on new way of building things. Just don’t lose yourself on the process.