Investor's 3-year struggle coding with LLMs pays off: now he just builds
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-11-16
Investor Stewart Alsop III reflects on his AI coding journey: from 2022-2025 he spent enormous time badly trying to get LLMs to code for him, learning a huge amount of technical details in the process. From 2025-2026, all that friction vanished — he now just builds, and the accumulated technical knowledge helps him know what to build and how to prompt.
He also mentions a year of teaching people to fish in robotics and is curious where it goes next. A snapshot of how rapidly AI coding tools shifted from error-prone iteration to direct building.
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