Alt title: Maybe we’ll be able to see the Matrix after all

I got my start coding in middle school with one of the hardest languages there is: Assembly/machine code (in my case, Z80 for TI calculators).

From there, I learned PHP, HTML, and basic JavaScript by the age of 13. I was building websites for friends and family by the time I was 14.

But then I parted ways with coding for most of my life as I switched to theater, music, film, and literature. Sure, as a digital marketer, I’ve used HTML, PHP, and JavaScript pretty much every day of my 20-year career.

Still, I never followed up with any of the “full stack” coding that allows the real magic and provides the backbone of the modern internet.

For someone like me, AI and Vibe Coding allow me to get up to speed and back in the saddle after all these years.

Yes, I took a long detour, but the concepts never left me, and it’s fun to think about solving problems in this way again.

Of course, people like us will never be top full stack engineers. But we now have access to an entire category of problem-solving that would have been lost to us otherwise.

Awesome.