Recent events have left me reflecting on how far we’ve drifted from being able to simply coexist with people who think differently than us. What happened in the last 24 hours—and really, what’s been building over the past couple of years—shows a troubling reality: we’ve become so polarized that we can’t live with each other anymore.

After nearly 20 years of software development, I recently decided to try an experiment that taught me a valuable lesson about working with AI tools. I wanted to see what would happen if I used Claude Code to build a complete tool from scratch without writing any code myself. The results were… enlightening.