🌟 Embracing the Power of #AI to Build Apps Without a Coding Background 🌟

Understanding technical language is an important part of my professional role, but I've never written a line of code other than a Python program that printed "Hello World".

I've always been fascinated by the potential of technology to change the world. Recently, I embarked on a journey to harness the power of AI, specifically ChatGPT, to build a Next.js app - all without any coding experience.

Along the way, I encountered numerous challenges, from setting up file structures to importing modules and fixing errors. But with every roadblock, I learned something new and valuable.

So far, I've made some progress in building components, handling states, and designing with Chakra-UI. While I'm not finished yet, I'm thrilled about my accomplishments so far and the insights I gained.

I'm using a combination of tools to achieve this, I think that's what devs call a tech stack? Here's what it looks like:

#ChatGPT - My mentor and technical expert. It helps write the code, check for errors, and basically tells me what to do. I'm sure soon we'll have tools that just replace this process and build apps from description to final product, I wouldn't be surprised if that already exists.

#replit - Super cool tool that serves as a collaborative IDE. I'm not really sure what that means, but I think it's a platform that compiles files and allows you to write code for each one, then finally run it. I loved that it has an AI assistant built-in, it allowed me to ask questions like where to find a specific file or function, how to build a specific folder, etc.

#chakraui - Not really sure what this is for, but I think it's helping me with the design side of things using some kind of pre-built code or code libraries?

#Nextjs - Absolutely no idea of what this really does, all I know is it's helping me with the front end of the app 😄 Has a pretty cool ring to it too, doesn't it?

#typescript - Another example of a tool I'm using without knowing too much about it yet.

#tailwindcss - I think this is helping with the web app? 🙈

I think this project really illustrates that AI is here to empower us, not replace us. Any software engineer could have accomplished what what took me several hours last night, in a matter of minutes. However, AI has given me the ability to start learning, by doing. With zero coding experience.

With persistence and the right tools, anyone can start creating applications that would have otherwise been impossible for someone like me to build.

By sharing my experiences, I hope to inspire others to embrace the potential of AI and extend our human capabilities.

Here's a sneak peek of what I was able to build so far. And yes, that's all it does 😅 I fully expected to have a beautiful and functional app by now, seems like I'm still at the bottom of the mountain. Let's see how things go...