Build the thing you want to exist.

Folks, honestly. Few things are more fun than building things together with AI. And I mean together. I’m not sitting there watching it do the work. WE build. It proposes, I object. I spot one error, it finds another. It tells me I’m an idiot. I change course, it tries another route. Six agents work in parallel while I talk things through with a seventh, and countless MCP connections bring the whole team into our work. It’s an unfamiliar way of working, but damn, it’s fun. And useful.

And damn, you learn a lot 🎉

I actually think that’s the big thing many people are still missing. You no longer have to wait for someone else to build the thing you’ve always thought should exist. The barrier is practically gone. What once required a development team, a budget and six months can now begin with an evening, an idea and the stubbornness to keep going until it works.

Right now I’m continuing to build [redacted]. Not because I’m a developer (that was nearly 30 years ago, if I ever really was one), not because it’s meant to become an important product, not because anyone asked me, and definitely not because I think I’ll make money from it. But because I want it to exist.

That may be the biggest change of all. I’ve spent most of my working life on digital transformation. More than 120,000 hours. Never before has the distance between an idea and a working solution been so short. So if you ever catch yourself thinking “someone should fix that”... have a chat with your favourite AI companion, and START. For the first time ever, there’s a fairly good chance that “someone” is you.

If you don’t, you’re a little louse.

(My AI team thought I should delete that last sentence. I chose to ignore them. 🤠)