I Stopped Writing Code. My Productivity Exploded.

I felt the same pride I used to feel from writing elegant code, maybe more. Because I wasn't proud of how it worked—I was proud that it worked. Real people were solving real problems, saving real space on their computers, and the feature felt effortless to use.

I'm still technical. I understand systems, architectures, and trade-offs. I can debug cod

Coding is now accessible to anyone who can think clearly. Designers who understand systems. Teachers who grasp how people learn. Writers who structure narratives. Your existing expertise translates directly into building software. You don't need years of syntax memorization. You need to understand problems and communicate solutions.

Every night, I list a half-dozen tasks with priority rankings. My morning starts with Codex creating branches for each task.

I always have at least two Claude Code terminals open, one for my number-one priority (usually my most complex problem), another for a secondary task. While waiting for generations in one, I switch to the other. I avoid lookin

Become a problem collector

Richard Feynman kept a dozen favorite problems in his mind, testing new information against them.