Day 855 - Rise of the 10x AI-powered dev - https://golifelog.com/posts/rise-of-the-10x-ai-powered-dev-1683267804630
Calling it now. You first heard it here:
**The 10x AI-powered developer.**
I'm generally cautious about being overly bullish about AI, because there's so much snakeoil hyperbole right now. But I also recognise that my restraint is not homogenuous. For specific niches and use cases, I actually feel pretty excited and optimistic about it.
Like for software development.
Two types of tweets that's been recurring in my timeline that made me think so:
1. Non-technical folks who never coded a day in their life shipping apps like nothing
2. Devs who know code but become 10x more productive
Like Charlie here. A maker but don't know how to code. Now making apps using [ChatGPT and Replit](https://twitter.com/charlierward/status/1637887392626384903?s=20):
> Everyone’s laughing at all the ChatGPT threads, but I (a man who can’t code), just built and shipped a functioning and IMO useful Chrome Extension in ~45 minutes using just that and @Replit - it was the weirdest feeling ever.
He even [showed us](https://twitter.com/charlierward/status/1638303596595892224?s=20) how he did it:
> You asked for it, and here it is.
>
> "How I built a functioning Chrome Extension in 10 steps and 45 minutes, with no coding experience. Using ChatGPT + Replit."
>
> Let's dive in people. 👾
Adam's a dev, but he made [a year's worth of apps in one month](https://twitter.com/adamlyttleapps/status/1653603465757855744?s=20):
> Last month I shipped 9 new apps ✨
>
> (a year of apps in a single month 🤯)
>
> My secret?
>
> ⭐️ Boilerplate created by GPT-4(better results)
> ⭐️ Debugging with GPT-3.5(faster)
> ⭐️ Bigger bugs in GPT-4(smarter)
> ⭐️ Icons by Mid-Journey
>
> Then: I polish clean it up and release it ✨
>
> 
Two great examples demonstrating how powerful AI can be if you know how to work it for your specific niche or industry. With *real* proof of work and output. But I don't think normies will be able to do it just yet. You do need to be relatively well-versed at prompting, knowing the ins and outs of how ChatGPT works to be able to get to production-ready apps, and be savvy enough to navigate the bugs and errors that crop up. But it just goes to show how low the barrier is now and can go in the future.
And I thought nocode was great for lowering the barrier to entry for coding.
Now with AI it's like writing code in plain English!
**The 10x AI-powered developer.**
I'm generally cautious about being overly bullish about AI, because there's so much snakeoil hyperbole right now. But I also recognise that my restraint is not homogenuous. For specific niches and use cases, I actually feel pretty excited and optimistic about it.
Like for software development.
Two types of tweets that's been recurring in my timeline that made me think so:
1. Non-technical folks who never coded a day in their life shipping apps like nothing
2. Devs who know code but become 10x more productive
Like Charlie here. A maker but don't know how to code. Now making apps using [ChatGPT and Replit](https://twitter.com/charlierward/status/1637887392626384903?s=20):
> Everyone’s laughing at all the ChatGPT threads, but I (a man who can’t code), just built and shipped a functioning and IMO useful Chrome Extension in ~45 minutes using just that and @Replit - it was the weirdest feeling ever.
He even [showed us](https://twitter.com/charlierward/status/1638303596595892224?s=20) how he did it:
> You asked for it, and here it is.
>
> "How I built a functioning Chrome Extension in 10 steps and 45 minutes, with no coding experience. Using ChatGPT + Replit."
>
> Let's dive in people. 👾
Adam's a dev, but he made [a year's worth of apps in one month](https://twitter.com/adamlyttleapps/status/1653603465757855744?s=20):
> Last month I shipped 9 new apps ✨
>
> (a year of apps in a single month 🤯)
>
> My secret?
>
> ⭐️ Boilerplate created by GPT-4(better results)
> ⭐️ Debugging with GPT-3.5(faster)
> ⭐️ Bigger bugs in GPT-4(smarter)
> ⭐️ Icons by Mid-Journey
>
> Then: I polish clean it up and release it ✨
>
> 
Two great examples demonstrating how powerful AI can be if you know how to work it for your specific niche or industry. With *real* proof of work and output. But I don't think normies will be able to do it just yet. You do need to be relatively well-versed at prompting, knowing the ins and outs of how ChatGPT works to be able to get to production-ready apps, and be savvy enough to navigate the bugs and errors that crop up. But it just goes to show how low the barrier is now and can go in the future.
And I thought nocode was great for lowering the barrier to entry for coding.
Now with AI it's like writing code in plain English!