Author here - yep, that's exactly right. Didn't occur to me people would read it that way (whoops!) - I meant implementing ideas from scratch.

This was inspired by a lecture I gave to some entrepreneurs on Friday (I put a link to the slides in the post) - these folks are people with business / design backgrounds who are trying to figure out how to realize some idea they've been working on. It was part of a larger course they were in - my role was just to give them the CTO / technical co-founder's perspective on what to look for in building their early tech team, picking a technology stack, etc...

I ended up really having an intense discussion with them on "finding the developer to implement an idea from nothing" and tried to capture that in the blog post.