There has never been a better time to build those big ideas, the ones that required funding and entire teams and months or years of effort to deliver.
AI has changed the game and it’s made it easier than ever for the little guys to compete with the big players.
There are so many ideas that I have been sitting on because they were simply too big for one person to take on alone. Now a single $200/mo subscription is the equivalent of a full supporting team.
I have been a software engineer for a very long time. I have worked on over 30 different projects spanning every single part of the stack and all sorts of paradigms: monoliths, microservices, mobile apps, web apps, APIs, content sites, data pipelines….you name it.
The point is, I have experience, a lot of experience. And I can say without a shadow of a doubt that these tools work.
BUT…. you have to know how to use them effectively. You have to hone your skills, you have to practice, you have to really put in the work. I mean…that’s the nature of software engineering as a discipline..isn’t it?
You have to become a proficient operator of these tools.
The best way to do that is to BUILD. Build something real. An actual product. Not a toy app you will never ship.
Push yourself.
Go through your notes where you jot down all your ideas, find the one that you were most afraid to take on and start and don’t stop until you ship.
The time to build is now.