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> The results were pretty wild (~800 commits, 100+ PRs, and a functioning app we use internally at my company)

I'd be very interested to hear less about the process, and more about the app itself.

If a week "in the hole" resulted in a Slackbot that greets people when they enter a Slack channel, I'd be significantly less impressed than if you'd built, say, a CI pipeline, or something that automatically creates Jira tickets based on outages, or automatically handles subscription renewals or something.

Plus, the number of commits & PRs is absolutely not a useful metric. How well is the app running? How many bugs are you finding day to day? How much functionality is missing, how easy is it to add new functionality based on user feedback, etc? Monitoring?

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Great points -- thanks for contributing to the discussion. It's an internal app with auth, ties to LLMs for analysis, ties to 3rd party data sources for aggregation of data, etc. It's not a Slackbot! It's actually something that we can use instead of paying ~$30k/yr (what we were quoted for similar products by vendors). I'd consider it an alpha release in it's current form.

> Great points -- thanks for contributing to the discussion.

Again, like my other comment, I'm not being snarky - but it feels weird and inauthentic to be thanked for contributing to the discussion, and sounds like you ran my comment through ChatGPT as well and asked it to post a response.

But the end result indeed sounds like more than just a trivial app, so I am genuinely impressed it's working well. (I'd love to see how long it would take another team of engineers, or another single engineer I guess, to re-create with the same functionality.)

Haha, I know what you mean. I just believe in being civil. Some of the comments on here are just rude; so I am grateful when people are constructive or generally active in the discussion vs. random hate or bashing.

I'm not entirely convinced that this entire thing isn't an experiment at throwing a complete dev / release cycle at some AI engine in some sort of weird marketing ploy.

"See, we built, announced and marketed an entire piece of software from our CLI prompt!"

Good gravy.

Meh, maybe if I was selling something. I have nothing to sell. Just sharing my thoughts from going heads-down for a week and trying a new workflow.

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