How to Start AI Coding If You Haven’t Yet

Well, friends, it is officially time. Officially time to stop acting like coding with AI is something that is just for software engineers because it is not. Now, obviously, throughout the course of the last year and a half, as tools like Lovable and Replit and then ClaudeCode and Codex came online, more and more knowledge workers outside of software engineering started to figure out how to use the power of writing code and building software to solve their own problems. And this is not just about all of a sudden those non software engineers trying to act like software engineers. It's about finding new ways to do their jobs with the aid of software that they can build themselves. And yet for so many people, this still feels so inaccessible and out of range. But it doesn't have to be. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. Alright, friends. Quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, KPMG, Blitzy, Robots and Pencils, and HyperAgent. To get an ad free version of the show, go to patreon.com/aidailybrief, or you can subscribe on Apple Podcasts. To learn more about sponsoring the show, send us a note at sponsors@AIDailyBrief.ai. Quick requisite shill for our upcoming superintelligent executive agent leadership program. This is the better supported led by Newfar Gaspar version of the agent OS and claw camp style programs that we've had in the past, focused on helping you not only learn how to build agents for work, but how to build these systems around them that allow them to intersect with your work in a safe, secure way. The next cohort starts just after Labor Day and is registering now. I was recently having a conversation with one of my daughter's friend's parents, and this is a person who has been using AI extensively for a couple of years. They have multiple subscriptions to multiple different services at high expensive levels and has moved a lot of their work into an AI assisted type of paradigm. And yet for them, even considering anything surrounding AI coding still seemed totally foreign. They were in short living that co work life, never venturing over into the quad code side of the world, and I think losing quite a bit for it. With absolutely no value judgments placed on where people are, I do think not having AI coding tools in your toolkit as a non software engineer knowledge worker does at this point leave you behind. Earlier this week, we did that episode about OpenAI's recent enterprise research that found that around the end of April, beginning of May, the percentage of tokens that were being consumed via API agentically had flipped the amount of tokens being used non agentically through ChatGPT, and that number has done nothing but rise. We saw that the firms who were in the top 10% of enterprise users as …