Comment by michaelteter

It is phenomenal.

I have a lot of experience, low and high level. These AI tools allow me to "discuss" possibilities, research approaches, and test theories orders of magnitude faster than I could in the past.

I would roughly estimate that my ability to produce useful products is at least 20x. A good bit of that 'x' is because of the elimination of mental barriers. There have always been good ideas I had which I knew could work, but I also knew that to prove that they could work would take a lot of focus and research (leveling up on specific things). And that takes human energy - while I'm busy also trying to do good things in my day job.

Now I have immensely powerful minions and research assistants. I can test any theory I have in an hour or less.

While these minions are being subsidized in the wonderful VC way, I can get a lot of done. If the real costs start to bleed through, I'll have to scale back my explorations. (Because at a point, I'll have to justify testing my theories against spending 2-300$.)

To your questions, I'm usually a solo builder anyway. I've built serious things for serious companies, but almost always solo. So that's quite a burden. And now I'm weary of all that corporate stuff, so I build for myself. And what a joy it is, having these powertools.

If I were in a company right now, I could absolutely replace a team of 5 people with me + AI... assuming the CTO wasn't the (usual) limiting factor.