I was able to rescue the code part, rebuilding a 3 month long 10 person project in 2 weeks
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rebuilding a 3 month long 10 person project in 2 weeks
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Helped: Leveraging unspoken assumptions extracted from previous failing effort.
Got in the way: Extracting unspoken assumptions was difficult, like extracting teeth.
To rescue a flailing project that I took over when a senior hire ghosted a customer in the middle of a project, I got the 200$ Pro package from OpenAI (which is much less usable than Claude for our purposes; there were other benefits related to my client's relationship w/ OpenAI) In the end, I was able to rescue the code part, rebuilding a 3 month long 10 person project in 2 weeks, with another 2 weeks to implement a follow-up series of requirements. The sheer amount of discussion and code creation would have been impossible without AI, and I used the full limits I was afforded. …