If you can prompt it to completion, you can build it
I'm not a programmer and I've still shipped a handful of real products this year. Why I think programming is dying, and what two posts from this week say about where teams are heading.
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Things I've shipped and things I've written, newest first. Mostly growth tools, Mac apps and notes on GTM.
I'm not a programmer and I've still shipped a handful of real products this year. Why I think programming is dying, and what two posts from this week say about where teams are heading.

A Mac workspace for running Codex, Claude Code and other CLI coding agents next to each other in the same project. Split panes, a shared file tree and quick path insertion so every agent is looking at the same thing.

A floating dock that groups apps by mode, like building, writing or admin. Switch mode and your windows rearrange, a focus timer locks you in, and on-device AI holds back notifications that can wait.

A simple notes and task app with separate Work and Life spaces. Nested subtasks, keyboard first, and it syncs between Mac and iPhone through iCloud. No account and no analytics.

Shows how much of my Claude, Codex and Grok plans I've used and when each limit resets, right in the Mac menu bar. It reads from the official CLIs, so no API keys. Reworked from an open-source app.

Gmail, Google Calendar and a task list in one Mac app, with an assistant called Si that knows what's in your inbox. Ask it what someone said, or let it suggest tasks from new emails. Nothing changes until you approve it.
How I set up a Codex agent skill that goes from a flagged release to a launch email in users' inboxes, artwork and all.

Pick an article in Safari or on your Mac, hit play and Listen reads it to you in a natural voice. Change the speed, get a quick spoken summary and save pieces for later. Your library syncs between Mac and iPhone.

Ads get the first click, but plenty of sales come from people forwarding the link. RelayGraph gives every visitor their own version of the link, so when it gets shared in a DM, a group chat or a TikTok post you can see the whole chain and which branch turned into sales. No social logins, and it never reads private messages.

Pipeline Labs watches for buying signals, like a company hiring for a role you sell to, finds the right person and writes email and LinkedIn outreach about that moment. Sequences stop when someone replies, and nothing goes out without your OK.
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