13 Lessons I Learned from Building a Dozen of Digital Products with AI

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Hey there! Remember when building a simple app took weeks? Well, forget about that! I’ve just spent 6 months diving deep into AI-assisted development, and let me tell you, it’s been a wild ride. I’ve built over a dozen digital products, and the game has completely changed. Want to know the craziest part? What used to take weeks now takes hours — at least for people like me with great (and super crappy) ideas, with a general programming understanding, and nowhere near the experience to build anything fast. So far, though, the change isn’t that AIs can program better than humans, far from it, it is that AI enables people who couldn’t code before to now create digital products all by themselves!

That’s a powerful movement since we have a huge bottleneck for software creators in this world.

But I’ve stumbled a lot along the way, so here are a bunch of quick lessons I want to share with you that hopefully help you get started faster and expand your view on AI-assisted creation of software.

I’ve split them up into four categories to make things easier.

Note: Of course, advanced coders use AI a lot, too! Take a look at this amazing machine learner who says he saves 20–30% of his time by using AI. (And judging from what he describes, I’d say his estimate is…