AI coding created a new class of creators. I'm one of them.

Something remarkable is happening. People who aren't developers are building real software. Not toy demos. Not no-code drag-and-drop pages. Real, compiled, native applications with backends, databases, and streaming architectures. AI coding tools — Claude Code in particular — have made this possible. I'm one of these people. I come from the world of ideas, products, and design. I've never written Rust. I've never dealt with code signing, DMG packaging, or IPC bridges. But over the past months, I built CodeMantis [(https://codemantis.dev)] — a native macOS desktop application for Claude Code — using nothing but Claude Code itself. Tauri v2. Rust backend. React 19 frontend. TypeScript. Real-time streaming. Multi-process management. Under 30MB, launches in 3 seconds, uses 40-120MB of memory. Signed, notarized, and shipping. A non-developer shipped a native Mac app with a Rust backend. That sentence would have been absurd two years ago. The Problem I Solved Claude Code is the most capable