Gosh — if you haven’t tried any kind of AI-assisted work in an environment like Lovable, that’s worth an hour or two of your time today. Not next quarter. Today.
My reasoning is simple. You’ll have to spend those hours at some point in the next twelve months anyway. I don’t know how you could evade the learning. So you may as well do it now, for free.
Lovable, for anyone who hasn’t looked, is the Stockholm company whose “vibe-coding” tool lets people use text prompts to write code and build complete apps. In December it raised $330 million at a $6.6 billion valuation, having passed $200 million in annual recurring revenue, and it says more than 100,000 new projects are built on its platform every day. That’s a lot of people spending their hour.
You don’t need to build anything real. Describe a small thing you’ve wanted — a tracker, a little internal tool — and watch it appear. You’ll forget the app by Tuesday. You won’t forget the sensation of directing software into existence in plain English, and once you’ve felt it, you think about your own work differently.
For anyone still hesitating, the objections are the usual ones — no time, not technical, it’ll all change next month. All true, and none of them a reason to wait. The tools will change. The habit of asking a machine to build something, and judging what comes back, will not.
Claude Code — for me at least, no substitute. It’s the terminal tool that Anthropic says reached $1 billion in run-rate revenue just six months after becoming available to the public, which is not the sort of number a novelty produces. Lovable is the friendlier front door. Claude Code is the workshop.
