It has never been easier to add a hugely valuable technology skill to your current skills, support a career change, have a rewarding hobby or create a meaningful project heading into and during retirement.
Years of work have given you valuable insight into customers, businesses, industries, and the real-world problems they face every day.
You know what people need, what frustrates them and where businesses lose time and money.
Book your free consultation with Automation Skills.
So what do you do with a life of work experience?
Your work experience and industry knowledge are hugely valuable and can become a mobile app, desktop application or cloud-based service.
With simple English prompts, AI can help turn a problem you understand into working software.
As AI makes software development more accessible, it has enabled people over 50 to enter IT while leveraging a lifetime of work experience.
What is vibe coding?
Vibe coding means describing what you want in everyday language and using AI to help create the software.
You still make the important decisions. AI helps turn those decisions into code, screens and working features.
Multiple AI agents can support different parts of the project, such as planning, design, development and testing at the same time like a whole development team working for you.
The practical vibe coding process
A typical project can follow these steps:
- Define the problem and target users
- Create a roadmap
- Create clear AI rules
- Decide which features are needed
- Choose the tools, programming language and visual displays
- Build the app one feature at a time, then review, improve and fix problems
- Test the app with real users and devices
- Deploy the project as a mobile app, desktop application or cloud-based service
Do I still need to know how to code?
Yes, but AI makes coding easier to learn and use and does all the heavy lifting for you.
AI can handle much of the routine work, while your coding skills help you customise the software, create unique features, fix problems and protect your “secret sauce” from being shared with everyone else using the same AI tools.
Is 6 months study time worth spending to make yourself more valuable at work, upgrading your AI skills, supporting a career change all while building your own mobile app worth it?
The Automation Skills Mobile App Specialisation helps beginners turn an app idea into a deployable mobile app through guided, mentor-supported study. No previous programming experience is required.
Explore the Automation Skills courses to compare your options.