I have worked around tech people for years. I was always on the business side, and over time I got more and more curious about building things myself.
For a long time I didn’t really try. Somewhere along the way I decided that building products was for “technical people”, and I wasn’t one of them.
Which is a bit funny, because I learnt C in university and I actually liked it. Then life went another way. I got into entrepreneurship and ended up in operations and business. Coding just dropped off.
Then the AI tools came along and I started playing with them, mostly out of curiosity. Small tests and random ideas at first. It wasn’t easy, and there is still a lot I don’t know. But for the first time in a long time, building something felt possible again.
After a while I managed to put together a few small web apps that actually work. Nothing special by tech industry standards. I am still proud of them, mostly because for years I assumed this stuff wasn’t for someone like me.
I think AI is changing that. You don’t have to become a proper engineer anymore to build something and put it out there. A lot more people can have a go now.
This site is where I write down how that’s going for me, while I am still figuring it out.
— Howie