@dessaigne: So many people are stuck doing boring work because they don't have the right background or aren't in the right communit…
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A tweet highlights how free AI tools like ChatGPT and affordable access to Claude Code and Codex now empower people without engineering backgrounds to build and do meaningful work, democratizing technical capabilities.
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So many people are stuck doing boring work because they don’t have the right background or aren’t in the right community.
But now? Anyone can use ChatGPT for free. And it doesn’t cost that much to access the superpowers of Claude Code and Codex. These tools giving people capabilities that used to belong only to highly trained engineers. It doesn’t cost much to start building.
The people who are going to win, whatever their background, are the ones who just do things. Don’t wait to be told.
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