This is a submission for the Future Writing Challenge: How Technology Is Changing Things.
I have some free time for the day and pop up some ideas on creating some text animations which might be useful for my next project. I was planning on creating 100 styles at first but I focused more on the display side on how I can showcase my 18 styles that I created with ChatGPT. This took me around 2 hours to be available on vercel alone with ChatGPT's help Text Animations
After that, another idea pop up to create a personal diet plan app using AI. I created another NextJS app to support both backend and frontend. I was planning to use the OpenAI to provide the recommendations for a 7 day plan, however, OpenAI doesn't have a free quota anymore so I go through with the CohereAI. Again, I got this done in under 1 hour.
As someone who's been developing for over a decade, this pace is really unsettling.
What used to take a full sprint now takes me a coffee break and a few prompts. I’m building working products — frontend, backend, AI integration, even polish — all in literal hours. That’s exciting. But also? Terrifying.
Because if I can do this this fast, solo, with AI… imagine what someone younger, faster, or more ambitious can do with the same tools. It’s not just about keeping up anymore — it’s about knowing how to use the tools that might replace us.
So I’m not fighting the future.
I’m collaborating with it — before it learns to code better than me.
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