"I can't code. I know, I know-these days, that sounds like an excuse. Anyone can code, right?! Grab some tutorials, maybe an O'Reilly book, download an example project, and jump in. It's just a matter of learning how to break your project into small steps that you can make the computer do, then memorizing a bit of syntax. Nothing about that is hard!"
"Perhaps you can sense my sarcasm (and sympathize with my lack of time to learn one more technical skill). Oh, sure, I can "code." That is, I can flail my way through a block of (relatively simple) pseudocode and follow the flow. I have a reasonably technical layperson's understanding of conditionals and loops, and of when one might use a variable versus a constant. On a good day, I could probably even tell you what a "pointer" is."
The narrator lacks the time, motivation, and desire to become a full programmer but retains basic programming knowledge of conditionals, loops, variables, and pointers. The narrator plans to use large language models to accomplish small, practical projects without learning extensive coding or facing community criticism. A concrete project pursued is a small Python-based log colorizer generated with Claude Code. A less-customized version of the project is available on GitHub. The project choice is described as motivated by two reasons, with the first reason called most important.
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