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Day 5: coding with AI even without coding skills

English is now a programming language

Andrej Karpathy called it “vibe coding” and the name stuck because it captures something real: you describe what you want, AI generates code, you run it and observe, then iterate based on results

Non-developers are building functional tools this way, and developers are shipping 10x faster than before

For developers: Claude Code and Cursor

Claude Code runs in your terminal and can read entire codebases, make multi-file edits, run tests, and create commits autonomously... by end of 2025 it hit $1B in annualized revenue, that growth rate reflects developers voting with their wallets after trying everything else

Cursor is an AI-first IDE built on VS Code, import your existing settings and you’re productive immediately

These two tools together cover terminal work and IDE work, everything else is a downgrade at this point

For non-developers: build real things

Lovable takes natural language descriptions and produces complete web applications, no coding knowledge required

Bolt does similar rapid prototyping from plain English

Replit provides a browser-based development environment with AI assistance for those learning

The practical tasks this enables for people who never wrote code: automation scripts for file organization, data extraction from PDFs and websites, simple web tools for personal use, custom productivity apps

Today’s assignment: build something, if you’re a developer pick a project you’ve been procrastinating on and use Claude Code or Cursor to ship it today, if you’re not a developer go to Lovable or Bolt.new and describe a simple tool you wish existed... a calculator for your niche, a dashboard for tracking something, a landing page for your service, watch it materialize from a paragraph of English.

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Why this matters (and why this is permanent)

This isn’t a trend - it’s a capability shift. The bottleneck is no longer “can you code?”
The bottleneck is now:

• Can you describe systems clearly

• Can you debug outcomes, not syntax

• Can you iterate fast without ego

People who master this will out-ship specialists who cling to manual workflows.

The new skill stack (2026 edition)

If you want leverage, stop asking “what language should I learn?”
Start training these instead:

• Problem decomposition: breaking vague ideas into precise instructions

• Constraint thinking: telling AI what not to do is as important as what to do

• Evaluation loops: running, testing, observing, refining — fast

• Product taste: knowing when something is “good enough” to ship

Coding is becoming orchestration.

If you read this and didn’t build something today, you missed the point.

AI coding isn’t about learning tools. It’s about becoming someone who ships.

Stay curious, talk to you tomorrow.

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