"Being technical" now means having the patience to ask Claude until you get it
brandon_galang · x · 2026-11-09
skeptrune overheard a girl at a farmer's market say "I wish I was technical," and reflected: AI has removed "knowing how to code" as a blocker to building software, but "nontechnical" people have been told they can't build for so long that they now refuse to try — learned helplessness that's almost dystopian.
brandongalang reframed it: being technical now just means having the patience to ask Claude how something works enough times until you internalize it.
skeptrune calls solving this a $1T problem — the unlock to an age of abundance where previously "nontechnical" people begin to build. "We're still so incredibly early."
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