I’m not gonna lie to you. AI is exciting, but it scares me sometimes.
Dario over at Anthropic — you know, the company that just accidentally leaked their entire codebase for Claude Code — said that in 6 months, 90% of code was going to be written by AI.
He said that 6 months ago. Now it’s six months from now, then it’ll be six months from then….you get the idea.
Although I think that this is a load of bullshit in order for us to spend our $20 a month (or $200+ if you’re a tech bro with 32 agents running nonstop) on tokens, let’s not forget that AI can still write code, and it’s getting better by the day.
So back to me. I use AI in my day to day. Opencode for coding tasks, ChatGPT for general use, Elevenlabs for voice generation, and OpenClaw as a personal assistant. I’m no stranger to an LLM. In fact, I try to embrace it.
But often times, I feel like I can’t keep up. There’s a new tool or update coming every week. Devs are shipping faster than ever before at the cost of decaying code quality. But done is better than perfect, right?
All of this to say, I was burnt out, and keeping up with the jones’ was really fucking with me. There was a minute there where I wanted to throw in the towel as a developer. This wasn’t the dream that I spent the last 6-7 (got ‘em) years building. My work sometimes feels like it’s become a commodity. The creativity replaced with “write me a ui with the following specifications…”. I found my coding skills were taking a hit, because I had become reliant on a token generator to write everything for me.
I checked out.
That is, until Webflow saved me.
Webflow is a low-code/no-code tool for building absolutely stunning websites with rich animations, standout designs, and more. Being a pretentious dev in the past, I used to have disdain for these tools because it wasn’t “real coding”. But as I’ve evolved into a senior eng, I’m finding that they are simply another tool in the toolbox.
And Webflow was just the tool I needed to get back on the horse.
I started messing around in Webflow & fell in love with the freedom and ease of their platform. Now, Webflow is not for the feint of heart. You do need to know some HTML and CSS to succeed (I’ll talk about Framer in an upcoming Weekly Pull Request for something more user-friendly). To me, it felt like knowing the rules and being able to break them.
I started designing again. No AI prompts, simply me, a Figma document, and whatever design idea was in the ol’ noggin.
Webflow brought the fun back for me in being a developer. It made me realize that the real winners in the tech space are the creative ones. The ones wanting to push the bounds of what’s possible in website & application design. And speaking for the extremely creative devs here, I feel confident that an LLM will have a hard time replacing us.
So thanks, Webflow. You made making websites a hell of a lot easier for me, and helped me continue pushing forward as a developer, chasing my passions in tech.
Hey, I’m Shawn.
I’m a software developer & web designer.
If you’re looking for a website or have an app idea, I’m currently accepting new clients to kick off summer 2026. Reply to this email or hit me up on social media @sudocreate to learn more.
Stay Creative. Stay Caffeinated.
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