June 13, 2026
It's been a long time since I was a developer that actually wrote code. So long that if I told you I was most proficient with ColdFusion some might say "Cold what??"
While there may be some companies still using it and paying developers handsomely, I haven't touched it in at least 20 years. I did build some pretty cool things though: An Enterprise CMS, Intramural League Management System (before TeamSnap) and quite a few smaller web based apps.
Why even bring this up? Because back in my dev days we would build the database, set up the server and then write the code to interact with the database. You needed to make sure your database was set up and secured (I learned the hard way), filter incoming info, parse outgoing info and code it all on the front end inside of whatever UI you had.
Today, I did something very similar in about 30 minutes. It wasn't at the scale of an enterprise CMS, but a table in a database was created, a form on a website was built to send data to the table and all the connections and security were all set up.
I had to do a little more than use my words, but the tool I used walked me through it as part of the 30 minutes I mentioned above.
Oh yeah, then I told Claude I wrote this.