The Market is Spooked
I've been reading the headlines. Wall Street is finally waking up to what we've known for months: The "Moat" of software engineering is evaporating.
Investors are realizing that if a company can build its own software solutions for pennies, they won't pay millions to Salesforce or Oracle. The headlines scream about "existential crises" and "threats to existing software companies".
They should be worried. Because last night, I proved them right.
The "Hawaii Concierge" Sprint
For years, my "Hawaii Concierge" affiliate engine has been the backbone of my revenue. It's a complex beast—tracking clicks, managing cookies, routing commissions. Rebuilding it the "old way" would have been a 3-month project involving a dev team, a staging server, and $15,000.
Last night, I rebuilt the entire thing in a single evening.
I sat down after dinner, fired up my agentic tools, and we went to work.
Me: Defined the logic and the business rules.
The AI: Wrote the functions, connected the APIs, and debugged the edge cases.
By the time I went to bed, the new engine was live.
"Crack Cocaine for Builders"
There is a quote circulating from Andreas Steinberger (founder of OpenClaw) that sums this feeling up perfectly: "This stuff, it's like crack cocaine for builders."
He is absolutely right. When you remove the friction of syntax, coding becomes addictive. You enter a flow state where you are building at the speed of thought. You aren't bogged down by "How do I write this loop?" You are focused on "What does this system do?"
The New Divide
The screenshots I saw today talk about "noncoders" building software to analyze MRIs or launch apps without ever learning to code.
This is the new divide. It isn't between "Developers" and "Non-Developers." It is between Builders and Maintainers.
If you are a Builder, this is the Golden Age. You can build a "Hawaii Concierge" in a night. If you are a Maintainer holding onto the idea that "only humans can code," you are in for a rough 2026.
The Protocol: The barrier to entry is gone. If you have an idea, build it tonight. Because if you don't, someone else with an AI agent will.
