There are millions of bakeries in the world. Some are good, some are bad.

And every one of them uses the same essential ingredients.

Flour, water, butter, sugar, salt, yeast… Some combination of these staples makes everything you love, everything you hate, and everything you think is just ok.

In the world of code, the ingredients are just as simple.

You have user interfaces (how users interact with data), APIs (how data platforms talk to each other), and you have databases (how data is stored).

Every app you’ve ever hated, liked, or loved is essentially a combination of these ingredients.

From Spotify to Notion to any SaaS product you can name, they all use the same essential ingredients.

And AI lets us build these platforms and better understand data contained within databases.

That’s it.

The problems that AI can solve are exactly the same as the problems software can solve in general: Anything that can be solved with a UI, APIs, and databases.

These ingredients were off-limits to the general population until recently. Closely guarded secrets of a brilliant, gate-keeping, coding elite.

But now we all have access to these tools.

It’s no more than the mastery of a few simple ingredients. It’s no less than the ability to bake anything we can dream of.