I've been able to build out, in a month, a fully TDD app that would have conservatively taken me a year by myself
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a fully TDD app that would have conservatively taken me a year by myself
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Helped: Specs describing architecture and use cases for each section.
Got in the way: Making the UI beautiful.
… I'm not into any kind of AI maximalist "I don't read code" BS (I read a lot of code), but I've been building a fairly expensive web app to manage my business using Astro + React and I have yet to find any bug or usability issue that Claude Code can't fix much faster than I would have (+). I've been able to build out, in a month, a fully TDD app that would have conservatively taken me a year by myself. (+) Except for making the UI beautiful. …