The biggest benefit of AI in coding for me isn’t speed, but fidelity to my original vision.

There have been many projects where I wrote everything by hand—one keystroke at a time.

By the end, I always knew where I had compromised. Not because I wanted to, but because I ran out of time, energy, or simply didn’t yet have the skills to fully realize what I had in mind. Like a painter who can’t quite get the stroke right.

AI is changing that for me.

I’m ending up with projects that feel much closer to the original vision I had at the start. I suddenly have access to a much broader set of technologies than I would have reached for on my own.

Recently, I built a randomizer in just a few hours. It was good—better than what I likely would have produced in a week on my own. But after another ~40 hours of AI-assisted iteration, it became something else entirely: a product that truly reflected what I had envisioned from the beginning. A product I truly love because in some meaningful way it represents what I wanted to make.

Fewer compromises. The learning for me, a product that’s ~90% AI-generated can feel more like me than something I wrote 100% by hand.

At the core, all creative work is about expressing something internal and sharing it with others. AI, for me, is making that translation more accurate than ever.

I haven’t felt this excited about coding since my first projects in the 1980s.