I’m not a professional developer but I can find my way around several languages and deployment systems. I have used Claude to migrate a mediumsized Laravel 5 app to Laravel 11 in about 2-3 days. I would not have dared to touch it otherwise.

In my day job I’m currently a PM/operations director at a small company. We don’t have programmers. I have used AI to build about 12 internal tools in the past year. They’re not very big, but provide huge productivity gains. And although I do not fully understand the codebase, I know what is where. Three of these tools I’m now recreating based on our usage and learnings.

I have learned a ton about all kinds of development concepts in a ridiculously short timeframe.