Comment by calrain

Yes, things that get resolved very quickly with AI include fixing Linting errors, reorganizing CI pipelines, documenting agreed on requirements, building well documented commits, cleaning up temporary files used to validate dev work, building README.md's in key locations to describe important code aspects, implementing difficult but well known code, e.g. I got a trie security model implemented very quickly.

Tons of dev work is not exciting, I have already launched a solo dev startup that was acquired, and the 'fun' part of that coding was minimal. Too much was the scaffolding, CRUD endpoints, web forms, build scripts, endpoint documentation, and the true innovative stuff was such a small part of the whole project. Of the 14 months of work, only 1 month was truly innovative.