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AI Coding and the Peanut Butter and Jelly Problem


Why clear communication—not clever prompts—is your real AI superpower

Over the past year, I’ve been fully immersed in the AI-rena—building products at warp speed with tools like Claude Code and Cursor, and watching the space evolve daily. Even my son has joined the AI-rena, playing with tools like Lovable, Replit, and Bolt to build a learn-to-type game styled after Brawl Stars (which I’ll post about later). In the AI-rena, success won’t go to the fastest coders, but to those who can both clearly understand and explain how to turn a fuzzy idea into something that actually works... and maybe even walk away with a sandwich that didn’t end up on the floor.

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