Nobody Knows How To Build With AI Yet
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A developer reflects on building software with AI assistance, describing their experimental four-document system for managing AI-powered development. The author built Protocollie in 4 days using languages they didn't know, working in short bursts while AI handled the heavy coding. They argue that traditional programming expertise is becoming obsolete as AI tools evolve faster than developers can master them, leaving everyone as permanent beginners in this new paradigm. The piece explores the strange time dilation of AI-assisted development and questions what programming even means when the main skill becomes articulating desires to AI rather than writing code.
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The Great Experiment Nobody's Running the Same WayMy Current Experiment (Subject to Change)Time Dilation in the Age of AIThe Spaghetti TestimonyWhat Even Is Programming Anymore?The Four-Document System as Accidental PhilosophyThe Uncomfortable PlateauWhere This All GoesSort: