For the first time in my life, I'm managing to create things at the same speed I think. And that fundamentally changes the relationship I've always had with my own ideas.

I've always been the kind of person who lives in the world of thoughts. The type sitting in a classroom, seemingly focused on the teacher, actually thinking about a million things that have nothing to do with the class. Distracted not from lack of interest, but from excess of thought. Head always full, always producing. The problem was that the real world never kept up with that pace.

The beginning: trying to put my head into the world

Since childhood, creativity was always there. In games, in stories I invented, in projects I tried to assemble with whatever I had at hand.

I remember building a cardboard computer and trying to make it have screen changes through a roller I would spin. And when I bought a hot glue gun, I started building cities out of cardboard and styrofoam. Always trying to put the ideas in my head into the physical world. But the physical world has limits. Styrofoam costs money. You cut, paint, glue, and in the end you have a static city, with nothing dynamic about it.

The computer changed that.

The limits of programming

With the computer, I could create my own universes. Dynamic, alive, interactive. At first, not knowing how to code, I used RPG Maker and more accessible tools, and I could actually create things: games, stories, mechanics. My head never stopped generating ideas.

But there was always a ceiling. When the idea required real programming, I'd hit a wall. I'd have to ask for help from someone who knew how, depending on another person to take the next step in my own creations.

Learning to program and the time that disappeared

Over time, I got a computer science degree and started working as a web developer. I learned object-oriented programming, learned how things really work. And I reached a point where I knew I could build anything — I just needed time.

Then the time disappeared.

Life filled up. There were a few hours left at night, sometimes already too tired to create anything. The flow of ideas stayed the same as always, but the time available to execute them shrank. There was also the need for leisure, social life, simply resting.

I even created a spreadsheet with all the project ideas I had, trying to evaluate where to start. But looking at that list, everything seemed time-consuming and laborious. Each item represented months, maybe years of work. And that was discouraging. Many ideas stayed exactly there, in that spreadsheet, going nowhere.

The leap

Then came the AI agents.

LLMs, ChatGPT, had already helped quite a bit with research, organizing ideas, studying. But they were never that efficient at programming itself, which is the tool I use to create things. What changed everything were the agents: Claude Code, Codex, and similar. They accelerated the process of building something and creating increasingly complex things in an absurd way.

And that is something unprecedented. Never in my entire life have I had ideas that could be put into practice and validated in real time. Now I have an idea, start building, see it work, and that generates new ideas, new possibilities, which come right back into the cycle immediately.

The speed of thought

What AI agents gave me was something I had never had: execution at the same speed as thought.

My mind has always worked fast. Ideas appear, branch out, connect. The bottleneck was never thinking — it was transforming thought into something real. Every idea I ever had in my life had to go through a long funnel: learning what I didn't know, writing the code, debugging, iterating. Weeks, sometimes months, to validate whether something worked. In practice, most ideas died before getting there.

Now that funnel barely exists. I have an idea, start building, see it work, and that generates new ideas that come right back into the cycle immediately. The time between thinking and having something concrete in hand has dropped to minutes. Every day.

This is the first time in my life that the speed of creating keeps up with the speed of thinking. And that changes everything, because ideas that used to be unviable, that I would have discarded before even starting, are now simply possible.

It's a unique experience. And the feeling is that I'm barely getting started.