"I Build Software on My Phone. I Can't Code."

A Garlic Farmer's Guide to AI: Building Software with Nothing but a Phone The Setup I'm a garlic farmer. I've been living in rural South Korea for 16 years. I don't own a PC. Everything I do with AI, I do from my phone. That sounds like a limitation — and it is. But it's also the reason I discovered something that neither developers nor typical AI users seem to be doing. What Most People Do with AI There are roughly two groups of people using AI for coding right now. Non-developers open ChatGPT and say "write me a calculator." The AI spits out code as text. They look at it, maybe copy it somewhere, and that's the end of it. The code never actually runs. It's just text on a screen. Developers use tools like Claude Code, OpenClaw/Pi, or Cursor on their PCs. They open a terminal, type commands, install packages, set up API keys, and run code directly. AI helps them — suggests code, fixes bugs — but the developer is the one actually executing everything. They're the hands; AI is the assist