Cassie Kozyrkov

You insist that the game you want to play is called Heart Sweeper, but you have never programmed a gosh darn thing.

What are you going to do?

Suffer.

Right, so either you're going to find a programmer and pay them, yes.

Right, that's one option, good.

Delegate, I love it.

Or you become the programmer.

What does that take?

several years of learning how to speak an unnatural language.

It is not natural, these things, these C++ and pythons and assembly and whatever else.

It's not natural.

And you have to be some kind of masochist like me to think it's fun to do this.

It's fun.

Speaking of Harry Potter, I've always thought programming was a little bit like magic spells, like abracadabra.

But you first have to learn the language.

Wingardium Leviosa.

You have to learn these funny words.

And after a while, after seven years in wizarding school, you can make yourself a custom Minesweeper app, can't you?

But today, you go into ChatGPT, Claude, whichever one of these tools, and now what does it take in order to make the attempt?

To make the attempt, you just say what you want.