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YesClaude · 23 Jun 2025

As a single developer at a startup? This is the only way I've been able to get "other startup-y" work done while also progressing the codebase

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In the thread “Dev jobs are about to get a hard reset and nobody's ready”, replying to this comment

Helped: Granular rules, modular code, and letting LLM lead development.

… Probably not, I don't think it would've saved me much time in a "regular" codebase. As a single developer at a startup? This is the only way I've been able to get "other startup-y" work done while also progressing the codebase - the value of being able to do multiple things at a time, let the LLM and intermittently review the output while you get to work on other things. The biggest tip I can give: LLMs struggle at "coding like a human" and are much better at "bad-practice" workflows (e.g. …