I have stopped trying to help people build apps
Building isn't the hard part anymore. Changing what you built without breaking it is.
Earlier today I said to myself: I hate AI-assisted coding. Then I said I love it. It felt like a love-hate relationship.
It’s not.
The first pass gave me a plan with 20 steps. After refining, it became 3 steps.
That’s where AI helps. At the extremes. Expanding the space, then collapsing it.
But the value isn’t the steps.
It’s how it forces you to shape what you’re asking for. To work out what you actually want.
In my case, I wanted a plan.
AI is great at that. It surfaces edge cases I wouldn’t have thought about. That part is useful.
What’s harder is deciding what to cut. Which edge cases don’t matter. What’s actually real.
Building isn’t the problem anymore. Getting something live is easy now.
The problem shows up after.
You need to change something and you’re not sure what it will break. With AI doing so much, it’s not always clear what changed to make it work or what the downstream effects are.
That’s the shift.
To be honest, when I started supporting people to use AI assisted coding for their apps, it felt like I was helping people build apps. Now it feels like helping people think about how they build them.
So now it’s this:
Change your app after launch without breaking it.
Not ideas. Not options.
Now it is more about a system for making safe changes.
Key takeaway: Building isn’t the hard part anymore. Changing what you built without breaking it is.