Now with Gen AI even just using ChatGPT and feeding it a lot of context - diagrams I put together, statements of work, etc - I can do it all myself without having to go through the coordination effort of working with two other people
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Helped: Feeding diagrams and SOWs as context to ChatGPT allowed solo execution.
Got in the way: Coordination overhead with a junior developer using Claude Code slowed the project.
… Before I would have staffed my projects with at least me leading it and doing the project management + stakeholder meetings and some of the work and bringing a couple of others in to do some of the grunt work. Now with Gen AI even just using ChatGPT and feeding it a lot of context - diagrams I put together, statements of work, etc - I can do it all myself without having to go through the coordination effort of working with two other people. On the other hand, when I was staffed to lead a project that did have another senior developer who is one level below me, I tried to split up the actual work but it became such a coordination nightmare once we started refining the project because he could just use Claude code and it would make all of the modifications needed for a feature from the front …