I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot
You are now! It&#x27;s the act of solving the problem not the code itself that entirely matters. Code is simply an unfortunate vehicle to do so. I&#x27;ve been programming for almost 20 years now, 10 professionally and I love it. I also maintain that for a lot of the programming that makes the world go round, it&#x27;s not that hard. People just convince themselves they won&#x27;t be able to.<p>LLMs have supercharged me as an experienced dev, not writing code[0], but rubber ducking[1] with something that talks back and I can ask my question in an infinite amount of stupid ways and it won&#x27;t balk.<p>If it can do that for me, designing a database, it&#x27;s about to introduce a whole new wider range of &quot;I&#x27;m not a programmer&quot;s into being programmers. Good timing too, the world needs it.<p>I know particularly prickly devs will be annoyed by people they see as not true developers, but, and sorry to be so blunt, fuck em. It&#x27;s short sighted because if you&#x27;re as deep and skilled as you think you are, you won&#x27;t intersect with this new wave of programmers anyway.<p>[0] I stopped using copilot, it got in my way too frequently even after initially liking it.
[1] I use GPT4 and I intend to publish my entire history of my back and forths I&#x27;ve had with it for designing a database after I release my project, but it basically just let&#x27;s me bounce ideas off it. The caveat is this area is not unfamiliar to me, and the techniques I&#x27;m discussing I know enough about to call bullshit on when I see it.