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Then where is all this new and amazing software? If LLM can 10x or 100x someones output we should've seen an explosion of great software by now. One dude with

• kjksf 8mo ago
  That's a silly bar to ask for. Chrome took at least a thousand man years i.e. 100 people working for 10 years. I'm lowballing here: it's likely way, way more. If ai gives 10x speedup, to reproduce Chrome as it is today would require 1 person working for 100 years, 10 people working for 10 years or 100 people working for 1 year. Clearly, unrealistic bar to meet. If you want a concrete example: https://github.com/antirez/flux2.c https://github.com/antirez/flux2.c Creator of Redis started this project 3 weeks ago and use Claude Code to vibe code this. It works, it's fast and the code quality is as high as I've ever seen a C code base. Easily 1% percentile of quality. Look at this one-shotted working implementation of jpeg decoder: https://github.com/antirez/flux2.c/commit/a14b0ff5c3b74c7660285444fc3e4477adcc0de1 https://github.com/antirez/flux2.c/commit/a14b0ff5c3b74c7660... Now, it takes a skilled person to guide Claude Code to generate this but I have zero doubts that this was done at least 5x-10x faster than Antirez writing the same code by hand.