This is the most personal episode I have ever recorded.

It's my near half-century journey to building an app. And how AI made it possible.

I'm a pre-beginner coder.

Yet eventually - and I mean, eventually, I somehow composed a working prototype of an application.

And I hope that I might inspire someone to give AI coding a shot. And learn the basics of coding - to get the most from this new, and hugely exciting, way to make things we love.

AI tools and models I've used for my working prototype:

Google's Gemini 1.5 Pro
Various AI coding extensions for VS Code (Cline, Roo Code, Aider, and Continue)
GitHub Copilot Pro using Anthropic's legendary Sonnet 3.5 model
Perplexity Pro (with OpenAI o1) for research
Deep Seek R1 (try it free) for mindblowing progress
Lovable for visual inspiration based on my initial PRD.

I almost gave up. Many times. I was literally and successfully prompting AI code editors to death.

But I don't enjoy giving up.

Find out what turned everything around.

And why you, too, should stay the course...

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42 years to build an app