Feels like people are using it as a shortcut to dismiss products they don t like.
At the end of the day, devs have always relied on tools to go faster, frameworks, libraries, Stack Overflow, templates, all of it. AI is just the next step in that chain. Typing code was never the hard part anyway. Understanding what to build, making the right product calls, and handling messy edge cases is where the real work is.
AI doesn t change good vs bad builders, it just changes speed.
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.
