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YesChatGPT · 19 Aug 2025

I can do myself in the same amount of time with ChatGPT

JustExAWS on Hacker News

In the thread “AI Is Not a Dev”

Helped: Acting as a junior dev for infrastructure and code across many services.

… To pretend that the previous “4GL” tools are analogous to what LLMs can do is silly. I am always using the anecdote that there are projects I scoped pre-2023 that I would have had to have at least one or two junior devs to do help me do the work after I wrote out all of the design specs and now I can do myself in the same amount of time with ChatGPT. That’s along with my lead/architect role of talking to the client, a lot of project management work, design documents, helping sales etc. …