AI Coding and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Problem
Published on: 2025-05-01 06:26:36
(Reposted from https://www.iamcharliegraham.com/ai-coding-and-the-peanut-butter-jelly-problem/)
Over the past year, I’ve been fully immersed in the AI-rena—building products at warp speed with tools like Claude Code and Cursor, and watching the space evolve daily. I’ve used these tools to (in the last 6 months) develop:
🧠 Betsee.xyz : a prediction market aggregator that can even tell you prediction markets based on tweets.
📝 TellMel.ai : an empathetic personal biographer to share life stories and lessons
📞 GetMaxHelp.com : a family-powered tech support line powered by AI and voice
💬 YipYap.xyz: a thread-based community chat app
Even my son has joined the AI-rena, playing with tools like Lovable, Replit, and Bolt to build a learn-to-type game styled after Brawl Stars (which I’ll post about later). It's been energizing and eye-opening. Six months ago, I wouldn’t trust AI to do much beyond autocomplete. Now, I don’t want to code without it.
But despite all that progress, I keep r
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