We've taken off
A colleague of mine, Pedro, background in finance, showed me a spec that he made for a really complicated app. “To hand-off to engineering” he said.
me: ”You can even build it yourself, just throw it in Claude!”
Pedro: “No I did. I built it. That doc just explains how it’s structured.”
Never wrote a line of code in his life. Build a very complicated, very useful app that you can’t buy off the shelf. From scratch. No vibe-code app. Just Claude Code / Codex.
Until very recently it was entirely possible to build a little app that did a little thing. But large projects required many iterations.
Not anymore.
If you give the AI enough to work with, are specific enough with what you hope to achieve, it can now single-shot a genuinely elaborate and complex application.
We’re beyond the threshold
As I keep reminding you: today AI is at its worst. So before you comment “but you still need someone to review code” or “you still need programming skills for larger projects” - yes you’re entirely right. But that’s today, the worst day of AI forever going forward.
At Remote, already 70% of all code is written by AI (that we can track), bugs are auto-fixed by AI (when possible) and code reviews are given a first pass by AI. This was meaningfully different three frikkin’ months ago.
The path from 70% to 99% is very clear, and I don’t see any reason that we’re soon at 100%. You no longer need to learn a programming language. Rather, you need to become great at translating your ideas to words to make great applications.
Progress is moving so fast that people and companies that won’t adopt this new way of working will be completely obliterated by people that do, as it now takes hours what used to take months.
The onus is on you. It’s not a requirement anymore to have a particular education or experience in tech. If you can talk, you can build. It might be slightly bumpy today, but it’s getting easier every single day.
Don’t know where to start? Ask you favorite AI.
Job — exactly this.
For me it feels like one of those rare moments in time again.
80’s → the computer
90’s → the internet
2000’s → cloud
And now: AI → Agentic AI.
What I love most about this shift is something simple: for the first time the creative mind can actually build.
You don’t need to be the one writing every line of code anymore.
The role becomes something else:
architect, conductor, creator of systems.
A Michelin-star chef doesn’t cook every plate.
A conductor doesn’t play every instrument.
But they design the experience and direct the orchestra.
Agentic AI unlocks exactly that.
Last year I decided to jump fully into it — learning, experimenting, building. Love it!
Built three platforms this way.
Latest experiment: Quantrly.com — trying to democratize trading decisions with real-time AI reasoning (buy / sell / wait).
Still early. But fascinating times to be building.
Curious where you see the real frontier emerging.
Best, Casper