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I am interested in hand-crafted software, and it feels deceptive when you put "no AI" in the title only to reveal there was. If you try to minimise its impact after, one wonders, if the impact was so minimal, why it was necessary. If you worked on it for 15 months without generated code, vs. 1 week with, why not finish the job? What was the purpose of introducing generated code in the last week, and could you not have taken a little more time to do it by hand given you already invested so much time into it?

> 1 week now with AI

1 week is enough to build out a full-featured application with AI if you know what you're doing and are using proper tooling.

You may want to use a better metric to quantify what AI tooling did in the project.

> think it's fair to say it's almost 100% AI free.

So write "almost without AI" in the title, then!

My experience is 1 week of AI can = a year of by hand development.