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Re:Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented t... by sarchertech on Friday July 04, 2025 @07:57PM (#44468996)
If what you meant by 100x more productive is that sometimes for very some specific things it made you 100x more productive, and that isn’t applicable to software development in general, I can see that.

I have many times delivered a year of value in a few days by figuring out that we didn’t actually need to build something instead of just building exactly what someone asked for.

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Re:Show HN: I AI-coded a tower defense game and documented t... by AndrewKemendo on Friday July 04, 2025 @11:51PM (#44469968)
>I have many times delivered a year of value in a few days by figuring out that we didn’t actually need to build something instead of just building exactly what someone asked for.

Knowing what not to do more of a superpower than knowing what to do - cause it’s possible to know

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