I was able to deliver on all stretch goals, put in much more polish and automated testing than originally planned
buu700 on Hacker News
ballpark 10x speedup for the first 80% of the project
In the thread “Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome”, replying to this comment
Helped: Meta-prompting for plans and using AI for coding and Q&A.
Got in the way: Occasionally manual editing was faster than prompting.
… Without AI, I simply wouldn't have been able to fit the project into my schedule, and would have turned it down. Instead, not only did I accept and fit it into my schedule, I was able to deliver on all stretch goals, put in much more polish and automated testing than originally planned, and accommodate a reasonable amount of scope creep. With AI, I'm now finding myself evaluating other projects to fit into my schedule going forward that I couldn't have considered otherwise. …