This week nine people who don't write code showed off what they'd built with AI. Not one developer in the room.
Instead, a university lecturer. A marketer. A business owner who'd rather do anything than invoicing.
A few weeks ago, most of them had only used ChatGPT to chat.
Andreea teaches twelve course presentations a semester. She built a workflow that turns text-heavy slides into clean, simple summaries. She says it saves her about two weeks per presentation.
Laura built a full social media system. Her brand strategy, tone of voice, and hooks, all living inside Claude. It writes two weeks of posts, formats them in her Canva templates, and schedules them in Metricool. Her next step is adding a manual approval before anything goes live. Smart.
Ana connected Claude to FGO, her invoicing system. Around ten client invoices a week, now handled with one click.
No one in the 3rd Space Bucharest AI Circle started with "I'm good at tech."
They started with "I'm tired of doing this by hand."
That's the whole secret. You don't need a developer background. You need one annoying problem and enough curiosity to keep poking at it.
When you see someone solve a problem similar to yours, you can steal their workflow and adapt it. Andreea's slide summarizer gave someone else the idea to do the same with meeting notes. Laura's social media system showed Ana how to structure her own automation.
Learning in a group means you don't have to figure out everything from scratch.
And next Monday? No laptops. Just padel, prosecco, and the same people, this time on a court.
Because the best part of learning something new is doing fun things with the people who are alongside you.
One annoying problem is all it takes to start. The curiosity comes after.
