The Speed of Thought

I spent the last 24 hours building this entire publication—design, backend, automation, and analytics—with Google's Antigravity.

Usually, a project like this would take me weeks. I'd get stuck on the CSS grid. I'd spend three days debugging an SMTP server. I'd lose momentum before I even wrote the first word.

But this time was different.

The Death of Friction

The biggest lesson I've learned is that friction is the enemy of creativity.

When you have to switch contexts from "Creative Director" to "Sysadmin" to "Frontend Engineer," you lose the thread. Your idea dies a death of a thousand cuts.

With Antigravity, I stayed in the "Director" chair. I didn't write every line of code; I directed it.

• "Make the header transparent."
• "Add a search bar that filters instantly."
• "Automate my newsletter."

And it just happened.

Code as a Conversation

We've moved past "coding" as a syntax test. We are now in the era of coding as conversation.

I treated the AI not as a tool, but as a partner. I critiqued its design choices ("Too cluttered, make it cleaner"). I pushed back on its logic. We iterated.

The result is a site that feels distinctly mine, even though I didn't type every semicolon.

The New Workflow

This changes everything about how we build.

1. Idea First: You start with the feeling or the goal, not the technical constraints. 2. Rapid Prototyping: You can see a working version in minutes, not days. 3. Iterative Polish: You spend your time refining the 1% that matters—the typography, the tone, the user experience—instead of fighting the boilerplate.

The speed of thought is the new speed of development. And once you experience it, you can't go back.