---
title: "AI gave us a faster brush"
description: "The joy of coding was never in writing code itself, but in solving problems and creating on an infinite canvas of bits."
date: 2026-02-22
tags: [ai, ai-and-productivity]
url: https://nem035.com/thoughts/ai-faster-brush-same-canvas
---

Writing code was never the most joyful part. Solving problems and painting on an infinite canvas of bits is. The fun was never in the brush. It was in the painting itself.

AI gave us a faster brush. The canvas didn't change.