If you tell a friend they can now instantly create any app, they’ll probably say “Cool! Now I need to think of an idea.” Then they will forget about it, and never build a thing. The problem is not that your friend is horribly uncreative. It’s that most people’s problems are not software-shaped, and most won’t notice even when they are. I began thinking about vibecoding and personal software last May when writing a piece for the WSJ. The barriers to building apps are falling to zero, yet the only people doing it seemed to already be in tech. My friend Lucas Gelfond analogized this conundrum to the art of parkour. To most citydwellers, stairwells are stairwells, and walls are walls.

Full AI use case : Claude Code can feel daunting, and most people’s problems are not software-shaped, but it is clearly autonomous and the home-cooked app renaissance is great.