42 years to build an app
AI Today27 Tammi 2025

42 years to build an app

This is the most personal episode I have ever recorded.

It's my near half-century journey to building an app. And how AI made it possible.

I'm a pre-beginner coder.

Yet eventually - and I mean, eventually, I somehow composed a working prototype of an application.

And I hope that I might inspire someone to give AI coding a shot. And learn the basics of coding - to get the most from this new, and hugely exciting, way to make things we love.

AI tools and models I've used for my working prototype:

I almost gave up. Many times. I was literally and successfully prompting AI code editors to death.

But I don't enjoy giving up.

Find out what turned everything around.

And why you, too, should stay the course...

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