I still can't code. I build platforms anyway.

There's always been an edge to what each of us can do.

For me, I could design. I've done it for years. But I couldn't make apps. I couldn't build platforms. I couldn't build things. That was where my work stopped.

Now I can do all of that. I still don't know how to code. What changed is that we now have intelligence that can do things, get things done and build things. These tools opened up the edge of what was possible for me.

So if I had to name the first idea of working this way, it would be this: respect intelligence.

Respecting it means two things.

First, teach intelligence how to do what you do. Your process, your decisions, your standards. If you don't, it does what it does for everyone else, and you end up with everyone's AI.

Second, use it to do what you couldn't do before. The things you always wanted to do and never had the skill, the time or the people for.

The first part is how you keep your quality. The second part is how you grow past your own edge. You need both.

For me, that has meant building software, platforms and tools I could never have made on my own. Real tools, that people use. Built on how I think and how I design.

Teach it what you know. Then point it at what you don't.