Coding friction was the wall keeping good ideas from consumers, argues dev
_amirabs · x · 2026-11-08
Responding to "you could learn to make a game before AI," @amirabs argues that rebuttal misses the point: people chronically underestimate small friction, and learning to code is not small. For consumers and even prosumers it's a wall, and the best ideas have always been on the other side of it. AI coding tools matter because they tear down that wall, not because coding was never learnable.
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