Permission to Throw Things Away

In the old world, if someone spent months learning to code to build a crappy version of a big idea, and then nobody wanted it, they’d be too emotionally invested to throw it away.

With no-code tools, you could build a version of that big idea in an hour, a couple of hours, or a weekend. If nobody liked it, nobody wanted to pay for it, or it was just rubbish, you could throw it away. Not that much time or energy was lost on something that ultimately wasn’t going to work.

The same is true today with AI agents, but even more so. The world is going to see an explosion of software. A lot of it won’t be good, but plenty of it is already great. Experienced programmers are shipping at an incredible pace, and the quality keeps rising. There’s going to be an absolute flood of projects out there that you can use, clone, tweak, and remix.

It takes a lot less time than learning to code from scratch, or reading and writing every file by hand. The feedback loop is quicker. The process is quicker. You can build anything at any time and just keep shipping.