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tracker1yesterday at 5:20 PM1 replyview on HN

Can't speak for GP or OP, but I see about 10x the output and 2-4x the value of what I would be able to get by hand. Within the gap between 2-4x and the 10x is really a lot of design documents, user/dev documentation and testing that I might not have rolled to nearly the extent that I do/get when using AI.

I haven't been using multiple AIs adversarially as OP, but might consider giving it a try with Codex and Opus. That said, my AI workflow has been pretty similar... lots of iterations on just design, then iterations on documentation, testing, etc... then iterations on implementation, testing, validation and human review in the mix.

My analogy is that it's really close to working with a foreign dev team, but your turnaround is in minutes instead of days, where it's much more interactive.


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nomelyesterday at 8:25 PM

I'm seeing the same, for gains being largely from documentation.

I feel strong making "dev" documentation though, since it seems a bit redundant/superfluous. I fully suspect nobody is going to read it at this point.

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