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I've been validating this sentiment almost every day. I left my job last year, after over a decade leading design and UX for iOS at Google, to pursue building

I've been validating this sentiment almost every day. I left my job last year, after over a decade leading design and UX for iOS at Google, to pursue building a bootstrapped solopreneur startup, and the speed at which I've been able to build things out has been wild. There are entire domains that would have taken weeks or months for me to learn the ins-and-outs of the tech, that Claude has been able to knock out in a matter of minutes. It's like I have two full time junior engineers working with me at all times (with a similar amount of coaching + guidance required), and for $20/month. These are gains of easily 2x-10x productivity and I already consider myself to be fairly productive as a design engineer.

xiande04 2y ago
What are you working on and how's it going? I also started a solopreneur gig building apps.
- featherless 2y ago
  http://sidecar.clutch.engineering/ http://sidecar.clutch.engineering/ — Sidecar, a personal automotive assistant. Sharing dev updates at http://threads.net/@featherless http://threads.net/@featherless, beta registration is here: http://sidecar.clutch.engineering/beta/ http://sidecar.clutch.engineering/beta/
- featherless 2y ago
  It's going super well — Been having an absolute blast and the automotive community is incredible.
teaearlgraycold 2y ago
Keep in mind, switching from Google to startup without AI should get you a 2-10x productivity gain just from lack of bureaucracy alone. But I do agree LLMs are at their best when teaching you subjects you have adjacent knowledge in.
- featherless 2y ago
  Haha yes fully agreed :D The gains I mention above are on top of those gains.
  - teaearlgraycold 2y ago
    I can buy it for the low end of your range. I was able to learn Angular during my time at Google super quickly thanks to GPT4 (before they banned it). I recall feeling it doubled my productivity in those early months.

xiande04 2y ago

What are you working on and how's it going? I also started a solopreneur gig building apps.

featherless 2y ago
http://sidecar.clutch.engineering/ http://sidecar.clutch.engineering/ — Sidecar, a personal automotive assistant. Sharing dev updates at http://threads.net/@featherless http://threads.net/@featherless, beta registration is here: http://sidecar.clutch.engineering/beta/ http://sidecar.clutch.engineering/beta/
featherless 2y ago
It's going super well — Been having an absolute blast and the automotive community is incredible.

teaearlgraycold 2y ago

Keep in mind, switching from Google to startup without AI should get you a 2-10x productivity gain just from lack of bureaucracy alone. But I do agree LLMs are at their best when teaching you subjects you have adjacent knowledge in.

featherless 2y ago
Haha yes fully agreed :D The gains I mention above are on top of those gains.
- teaearlgraycold 2y ago
  I can buy it for the low end of your range. I was able to learn Angular during my time at Google super quickly thanks to GPT4 (before they banned it). I recall feeling it doubled my productivity in those early months.