AI changed what I can build

The author recounts going from running Stable Diffusion on a personal 3090 and building a Discord bot for friends, to using ChatGPT as a learning and troubleshooting tool, to adopting Claude Opus 4 and Claude Code in summer 2025, which made full-stack projects and homelabbing feel achievable. They argue that working with coding agents resembles managing people—explaining goals, spotting when an agent solves the wrong problem, and being able to evaluate its output—and expect technical roles to take on broader scope. At home, they say cheap first versions make it worth building oddly specific personal software rather than settling for existing tools.