Max Musing

More control over how your charts look

I build faster now with AI than I ever could by hand. Things that used to take me a weekend now just take a prompt, and a lot of that is stuff I genuinely couldn't have written cleanly myself.

So part of me looks at non-technical founders asking whether they should learn to code and thinks the honest answer might be no, or at least not the way I did it. Spending six months grinding through tutorials to write code an AI will write better feels like a waste of time.

When I notice a project dragging, my reflex is always to cut scope. Trim the feature down, ship the smaller version, get something out the door instead of polishing the grand plan forever.

And usually that's the right call. Most of the time I was building more than the problem actually needed, and cutting it loose feels great.