Anyone Can Build Software Now

Edition 2: Anyone Can Build Software Now

Hello again web2’ers,

AI makes us feel a number of things, I think for the most part it breeds an uncertainty.

Fair enough.

One thing I do know now though, with certainty, is that it’s easier than it’s ever been for anyone to learn how to build things.

I’ve been head down for a few weeks iterating through my processes and I’m amazed at how quickly I’ve gotten to a point where I can create things.

Actual.

Useful.

Real World.

Things.

English is the hottest new programming language.

There was previously a significant barrier to entry for anyone eager to navigate the software developer space - coding.

That’s changed now and we have a genius assistant at out fingertips in the form of AI - I have personally spend days “chatting” back and forth with Grok and the rate at which I’m able to learn and progress has been incredible.

Here is an outline of my process, after a few weeks of refinement:

• AI: Set out a well crafted prompt outlining the idea of the project.

• CODING: Don’t worry about it - Grok is able to generate excellent Python code for you and you just plug it in.

• IDEAS: This is what’s become the most important part of the process now, and you’re only limited by what you can come up with yourself.

WTF are AI agents?

This is where I have settled so far, building “AI agents” which are just a catchy name for a well programmed set of instructions that bring together a number of tasks and together end up doing very useful things for us.

It’s not that complicated.

Above is the framework I have been using for the AI agents I’ve been building - they can be represented according to this chart:

• USER: That’s you.

• AGENT: That’s the bot.

• LLM: By linking up to AI we introduce a “thinking” element.

• MEMORY: Data stored allows the bot to learn and grow.

• TOOLS: Things like email, calendar, data sources, apps and many more.

• OUTPUT: Whatever your genius brain has come up with.

Join the Journey

I’ll begin to share my projects in more depth here. I’m still in the very early stages of understanding what sorts of things I can build and what sort of possibilities there are for creating.

It’s good fun though and I’m looking forward to sharing what I’ve learnt this time next time.

Cheers,

Justin