From a non-coder perspective:
From a non-coder perspective:
I am in sales and discovered AI a year ago. I'm only good at sales because I understand people and can read them. This is not a brag, just me recognizing a skill I have developed. So this leads me to this post and what @typecraft_dev was commenting on. This game analogy...Yeah this works because this is exactly how my last year has felt. I have been leveling up all year long. I have built, what I think are pretty impressive apps, for someone that is not a coder.
'Vibe Coding' is not a term I would use for myself. I started that way for first 6 months. But I'm the guy that wants to understand why. AI has allowed me to learn things so much faster and have access to information I would have never had before so easily. I can sit down and within minutes be deep into 'human memory', I can iterate and come up with wild ideas. I then can turn those ideas into working applications.
This journey and AI has allowed me to play the ultimate game. I can turn thoroughly researched and iterated ideas into real things. Things that I can use and do use daily. I have a personal assistant, that if you asked it who Brian is, will nail me. Why? Because it uses my design of memory. Not someone else's, but my idea, my design from scratch. I studied human memory and what makes a memory a memory, I studied Postgres, Drizzle, PGVector, I know how to setup Google Auth without AI, I can deploy to vercel, I have my own VPS that runs most of my personal Apps. I built a territory personal CRM for my sales job that has been immensely useful for me.
This has been my game of all games. You have a tool, it's all in how you use the tool. So yeah this has been some of the most rewarding times of my 56 years on this planet.