For a while now, an idea has been gaining traction: with artificial intelligence, anyone can build an app without knowing how to code. The promise is incredibly seductive: with just a few prompts, we can generate code and instantly turn an idea into a product.
It’s no coincidence that this vision took hold so quickly and gave rise to services like Lovable.dev, Blot.new, v0, and others. Every new technological evolution that narrows the gap between an idea and software tends to make developers' work look like an arcane ritual waiting to be dismantled by a simpler formula.
There is something deeply familiar about all of this. Something that reminds me of a line from a song many of us grew up with, with its slightly childish enthusiasm: everybody wants to be a cat!
Today, it seems like everybody wants to be a dev. The real question is whether everybody can be a dev.
Joking aside, the attempt to make programming accessible to everyone is an old story, one that certainly didn't start with the advent of AI.
