A note before we begin
Before anything else on this page — before the companies, the code, the decades of work — there’s faith. I’m a follower of Jesus Christ. That’s not a footnote to who I am; it’s the foundation. I don’t preach, and I don’t push. But I also won’t hide what matters most to me. Every line of code, every partnership, every venture flows from the conviction that we’re here to serve something bigger than ourselves.
“Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.”
About
I built my first self-learning AI in 1983. It ran in 16K of memory.
Last year, I wrote my last line of code.
Not because I retired — because I built something better.
After forty-five years of writing software for companies like Reliance Electric, Fiskars, and Allied Signal, I rewrote a production SaaS platform using only AI-generated code. No human keystrokes. Just architecture, judgment, and a framework I engineered when the AI tools kept failing.
It nearly killed the project. Context loss. Hallucinated dependencies. Code that compiled but didn't function. Three hundred TypeScript errors on what AI called "done."
So I engineered what was missing.
Today, DealerQ is live in production — serving agencies and processing millions of customer messages. I didn't write a single line. The framework I built to make it work pushes out ten development tasks in thirty minutes. What used to require a team now requires one developer and a system that doesn't make the same mistake twice.
I wrote a book about it. Zero Lines of Code: How a 45-Year Software Veteran Rebuilt a Production SaaS with AI is the real story — the disasters, the breakthroughs, and what I've learned that most people haven't worked out yet.
After forty-five years of writing code, I now manufacture it.
The future of software isn't typing. It's orchestrating.
Glen Barnhardt· CEO & Agentic AI Engineer · Founder, Barnhardt Enterprises, Inc. (est. 2009) · Author of Zero Lines of Code