Nobody Laid Out The Five Kinds Of Software You Can Make. So I Did.

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• Nate B. Jones argues that non-developers can now build personal software with AI, emphasizing that while AI writes code, human judgment—what to make, where data lives, and whether it works—remains the critical, non-delegable part of the process.
• He introduces a foundational map of “five software shapes” that guide subsequent choices, and discusses specific building tools such as Lovable, Replit, Bolt, Codex, and Claude Code, along with “four plain text files” that make an AI builder explain itself.
• A key practical warning is the critical importance of deciding “where your data should live,” noting that “moving it later is hard,” and stressing the necessity of thorough testing against everyday scenarios before reliance.