What is it like to create software in the AI era?

You still start with an idea. Something annoys you, or you see a gap, or you just want a thing to exist that doesn’t. That part hasn’t changed. What has changed is how quickly the idea runs into reality. It’s less “can we build this?” and more “why would anyone care, and how would they even find it?” Models and copilots can spit out code and copy that looks fine on the first pass. The bottleneck moved. It’s less about typing speed and more about taste, structure, and knowing what not to ship. Di