If you can dream it, you can build it.

We are entering a golden age of software, AI can create programs you describe in plain english

Previously, creating software was hard. On the order of spend years trying, makes you want to tear your hair out or cry hard. Very really hard.

First you have to learn a completely new language. Yes it is written in English, but it is a completely different language with very specific rules.

let divideVariable = 2 / 1;

means gibberish to humans, but it means something very specific and potentially useful to a computer.

Once you can speak this new language, you then you have to learn how computers work. Computers are super good at math, and super dumb. They will do exactly what you ask of them, even if it makes no sense or will crash themselves.

There is a classic computer science lesson where the teacher asks the class to tell him or her how to make peanut butter and jelly sandwich. The professor then uses the class instructions and actually tries to make the sandwich, but doing it like a computer would.

Doing exactly what the class said.

The demonstration immediately explodes into chaos because the professor follows the instructions to the…