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YesCopilot · 16 May 2026

We can build stuff in 6 weeks part time as a side project that would have taken at least 3 months full time, and therefore would not have been feasible

simonh on Hacker News

build stuff in 6 weeks part time as a side project that would have taken at least 3 months full time

In the thread “I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis”, replying to this comment

Helped: Building reporting and automation tools that would not have been feasible otherwise.

… Frankly without AI assistance many of these tools just wouldn’t exist at all. We can build stuff in 6 weeks part time as a side project that would have taken at least 3 months full time, and therefore would not have been feasible. Then we can iterate on it at least 2-4 times faster than with hand coding. …