When AI Quietly Makes You the Programmer
Tuesday, April 14, 2026
I get in arguments with people about their weekend "coding" projects. A manager will corner me on a video call, eyes wide, sharing their screen to show off an inventory tracking dashboard they spun up on Sunday using an AI coding assistant. "I built this in three hours," they say, clicking around the interface. "I don't even know React." Getting an idea out of your head and onto a screen in a single afternoon is a neat trick.