🚀 Platforms are not just for developers

This is an interesting post from a Marketing person creating website pages:

I built 19 website pages in a single day while my team was out for US thanksgiving. Not mockups. Not placeholders. Actual, shippable pages: a full partner ecosystem landing page plus individual pages for every major partner we’re building with right now. It felt surreal. Mostly because a year+ ago, there’s no universe in which I would’ve believed I could do that. And it definitely wouldn’t have happened without the engineers around me who’ve taught me how to think more like a builder—patiently walking me through GitHub (😒), tools, workflows, and a way of working that used to feel miles outside my world.

I then asked how long it took before she stopped hating Git?

I mean it took about 5 pull requests before I finally managed to create one without an error 🥵… it’s been two weeks and I finally feel like the lightbulbs are going off and I’m understanding the flow (pulling things from main, branches, commits, PRs, basic commands I have on a sticky note lol, etc).

This is a great example of someone who took ownership of their website creation, editing, and publishing workflow. Using local files and text based formats unleashed the power of AI resulting in the productivity described above. Using AI, anyone can now write scripts, create web pages, and code to some level. Text based formats and command-line tools are now within reach for anyone willing to learn a bit. All it takes is a willingness to break out of the cozy cocoon of GUI based tools, learn how to use an editor and terminal, and invest a little effort in creating a workflow.