I don’t code.
Never learned.
Probably never will — unless “using AI tools, begging them to understand me, and hoping for the best” suddenly becomes a programming language.
But honestly?
Being around tech people has taught me something unexpected:
there is a special kind of joy in making things — even if I’m not the one writing the code.
Somewhere along the way, this whole world — the chaos, the acronyms, the debugging frustration, the late-night “I FIXED IT!!!” energy —
started to feel like home.
Not because I magically became technical.
But because tech stopped feeling like a foreign country
and started feeling like a place where curiosity matters more than credentials.
🚪 The moment I realized tech isn’t a language — it’s a vibe
The other day in the elevator I overheard two very experienced tech folks talking:
Person A:
“Cloudflare was down.”
Person B:
“…Wait… what does Cloudflare even do?”
And then?
Silence.
The kind of silence where you can sense both people hoping the other one knows.
That’s when it hit me:
Even tech people don’t understand all of tech.
We’re all just Googling at different speeds.
Instant relief.
Suddenly the world felt a lot less intimidating.
🤖 AI is basically my translator in this chaos
AI is the reason I don’t feel like an outsider anymore.
I can’t write a backend service.
But I can ask an AI:
“Explain this to me like I’m holding a coffee and have zero idea what’s happening.”
And it does.
Without judgment.
Without ego.
Without the “this is basic” energy some humans have.
AI lets me participate.
Ask questions.
Understand concepts.
And learn — all without feeling stupid.
And the wild part?
The more I learn from AI, the more I appreciate the craft of tech — the creativity, the logic, the building energy.
🧡 Tech feels like home because of the people, not the syntax
I may never write a production-ready function.
But I understand the energy of tech:
- the excitement when something finally works
- the chaos when it doesn’t
- the curiosity
- the obsession
- the creativity
- the “just 5 minutes” lie
- the builder mindset
- the belief that problems are puzzles, not walls You don’t have to code to belong. You just have to appreciate the madness.
And I do.
A lot.
💬 Your turn — and this is where traction happens 👇
**What’s a tech term you use constantly…
but still struggle to explain out loud?**
OR
What’s the funniest analogy you’ve used to explain something in tech?
I’m collecting them like Pokémon 😄
Top comments (5)
And I agree that ai and google are the only friends we can count on! But, if we have access to a person who knows the subject, then we should go for them, because, even ai some times gives a big daunting list of things to understand and in real it could be something simple.Yeah, but its hard to find some dev pals who can put some light on those things!
Totally! AI and Google help, but nothing beats someone who can translate the ‘big scary list’ into something simple. Finding those people is tough — but that’s why communities like this matter.
There are a bunch of words and phrases like:
Exactly! Dev-language can sound dramatic when it’s really just simple actions. Love how you broke it down — we need more explanations like this for non-dev folks.
It seems to me that it’s all about the approach, or rather, about the intentions, I discovered this just by reading your article, it’s all about the intentions, when they want to open it to you, they explain it simply, when they want to share it with you, the person puts it in so that what he shares with is understandable, but when they want to sell you something, difficulties and omissions begin... I say this as a seller, because this is my daily work.