Have you noticed how most websites and apps kind of look… the same? Same layouts, same vibe, same safe patterns. Sometimes I wonder if people just copy what already works instead of trying something new. Or maybe the truth is simpler: it’s easier to follow the formula than to invent from scratch.
And now with AI tools everywhere, it feels like we’ll see even more of this. Anyone can spin up an app in a weekend. Which is amazing, but it also means the average software out there will keep getting more, well… average.
Lately it feels like every time I blink, there’s a new AI model, tool, or product announcement. It’s wild. The tech is moving so fast that even just reading the headlines feels like a full-time job. And that’s before you even get to trying anything out.
I catch myself wondering: should I be spending all my energy chasing every new thing? Or should I just keep my head down, do the work in front of me, and risk missing out on something big? Honestly, neither feels that great. One path is exhausting, the other feels a little scary.
I don’t know about you, but I can spot AI content from a mile away now. The videos, the blog posts, the photos—sometimes it’s so polished that it almost feels lifeless. You read a paragraph and think, yep, no way a human sat down and typed this out with messy feelings and half-formed thoughts.
And honestly, I think we’re all getting a little tired of it. At first, it was shiny and cool. But after scrolling past the tenth “AI-generated wisdom post” in a day, it starts to blur together. It’s like eating too much candy. Sweet, but you don’t actually feel good afterward.
Have you ever felt like building even the tiniest feature takes forever? Not because the feature is complex, but because it has to pass through a maze of steps—PM writes specs, designer makes mockups, devs wait for final handoff… By the time it’s live, weeks (sometimes months) have gone by.
This whole process was invented for a reason. Back when writing software was slow and expensive, we needed to protect developer time. Every detail had to be perfect before a single line of code got written. It made sense then. But now? Things are changing fast.
I thought I knew what AI coding felt like. My first experience was with GitHub Copilot, and it did about what I expected: a little smarter code completion. Helpful, sure. But nothing that really shook me.
So when I tried Claude Code, I honestly didn’t expect much more. Another assistant, maybe a bit faster. That was my guess.
I was wrong. Completely wrong.
The first time I used it, I just poked around with some simple workflows. Nothing fancy. But then I started writing specs with it, sketching out ideas, planning little systems. And it didn’t just go along—it actually made the process better.
I keep thinking about how weird it is that most of the rules we grew up with in software don’t really fit anymore. Stuff like DRY or KISS made sense when humans were the ones writing every line of code. But if most of the code is generated by AI, maybe the old rules are just… not the right ones. It feels like we’re playing a new game but still quoting the old rulebook.
I keep coming back to this thought: what if the real source of truth in software isn’t the code anymore? For decades, we’ve treated code as sacred. You write it, you read it, you debug it, and that’s how the world works. But I don’t think that’s going to hold much longer.
The tools are different now. AI is finally good enough to take a clean, structured specification and turn it into code across languages and frameworks. Not perfect, not magic, but solid enough to get the job done. And when that happens, something shifts. Suddenly, the thing you really trust isn’t the code—it’s the spec.
Sometimes I think about how wild it is that the cost of creating software keeps dropping. A few years ago, spinning up even a simple tool meant weeks of coding, debugging, hosting, and all that mess. Now, with AI, you can just type a prompt and—boom—something usable appears. It’s not perfect yet, but for small, specific problems? It works surprisingly well.
This opens up a new world. Instead of searching through endless SaaS products with bloated features you’ll never touch, you could just create your own app that does exactly what you need. No extra buttons. No steep learning curve. No monthly subscription for stuff you don’t use. Just your problem, solved your way.