AI Tools Closing the Gap Between Vision and Execution

I underestimated how emotional the impact of AI would be. For a decade, I was depressed about work. The best part of business is manifesting an idea. Seeing a problem, then fixing it for yourself and others. The worst part of business is trying to herd cats. Motivating the dozens of people required to execute on a vision. I didn’t fully realize this until I started using Claude Code, but I was borderline depressed when it came to work. I’ve always been frustrated by the gap between vision and execution. I’ve never been good at managing large groups of people. I’d have an idea I was excited about, but the moment it exceeded my own skillset (coding, for example), I had to hand it off to others. Wonderful team members—but with their own ideas. Their own pace. Their own taste. And often, after months of meetings and false starts, we’d end up with something I didn’t love, or felt frustrated by. I found this process so draining that I eventually gave up. I delegated almost all operations to CEOs. From a business standpoint, this worked out great. But my original love—building things, with my hands on the tools—was lost for almost a decade. Claude Code has brought back my fire. It feels like I have 50 (nearly) free super-genius employees living in my terminal. If I wake up in the middle of the night, there’s a 50% chance I say “fuck it” and go downstairs to mainline Claude Code at 4 a.m. There’s no longer a gap between vision and execution. It feels like: if you can imagine it, you can build it. Sure, there are frustrating bugs. It can get you 95% of the way there—and the final 5% can take an astonishingly long time. But it feels like magic. I genuinely can’t believe this technology exists. In the last month alone, I’ve used it to: Adapt 10 hours of interviews with my father into a beautifully written memoir Build a personality analysis tool for individuals and couples to explore mental health and relationship dynamics (coming soon) • Design an astonishingly beautiful website for a vacation rental I own • Create a bot that helps manage and execute all my Things tasks (including drafting emails and doing research) • Optimize my home Wi-Fi network • Build a deal analysis tool to deep-dive potential acquisitions and write investment memos • Create an automated personal journal that captures notable moments from my day (things my kids said, decisions I made, meeting notes, etc.) And an endless number of random tasks—easily a year or more of human work. The craziest part: I’ve only spent a few thousand dollars on Claude credits. Those of us using this are probably still 0.0001% of the population. I can’t even imagine what gets built once this is widely distributed—especially when it takes physical form through robotics. The next two years are going to be mental. This makes the printing press look like a joke.