Almost at the Speed I Think

The gap between what I'm imagining and what I'm holding has shrunk significantly. That changes everything.

Ten weeks ago I downloaded Antigravity - the vibe coding tool from Google - just to test it. I haven’t stopped since.

I’ve built more in these two months than the last few years combined. Things that would have taken weeks now take an afternoon. I built and open sourced my own framework for working with AI. Then I tried the same approach with marketing, research, data science. It kept working.

I’m working more hours, not less. But it doesn’t feel like work.

The loop goes like this: I have an idea. I write a prompt. I get a result back in seconds. I tweak it. It gets better. I try a different angle. Another result. Every few minutes something clicks. Something works. The momentum feeds itself. There’s no natural place to stop - the loop just keeps going.

There are plenty of moments when I look up and four hours have passed. Four hours that genuinely felt like twenty minutes.

The gap between what I’m imagining and what I’m holding has shrunk to almost nothing.

Here’s what actually changed, though - and it took me a while to see it clearly. The bottleneck used to be execution. Could I actually build this? Did I have the time, the skills, the team?

Now the bottleneck is imagination. Can I conceive it clearly enough to make it real?

I used to have more ideas than time. That ratio is flipping. The friction between thinking something and making it real - it softened. Significantly. And that changes what kind of person can build things.

This is the part I keep coming back to. People who couldn’t build before can build now. Not just faster - they can build at all. That’s a real shift in agency. I don’t think we’re taking it seriously enough.

I’ve made things I’m proud of. Deleted plenty too. For everything I look at now, I ask: why can’t AI do this? More often than not it can.

I’m a product person at heart. I’ve always wanted to build and create things. Now I actually can - almost at the speed I think.

One honest caveat: building something that works in a demo and building something that works in production are still very different things. The gap is real and AI isn’t closing it as fast as the demos suggest. But think about where we were two years ago. The progress is wild.

If you want to create and build things - this is the moment. The tools exist. Much of the friction we were used to is gone.

What’s left is your imagination and whether you’re willing to stay in the loop.

🙏

Be kind,

Manuel