A developer builds a SaaS product in 7 days using AI-generated code, completing work in 3-4 hours that would normally take a month. On Day 3 he hits a wall, doubts the deadline, then bounces back with renewed focus to finish.
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I thought to myself, do I need to start from scratch again? Did I just waste 2 days of my life? This is mind-blowing, people. The amount of code I was able to produce with AI would take a professional developer, you know, at least a month to write this code, and it took me 3 to 4 hours. It's absolutely insane. I wanted to make sure that we had a seamless user flow from the moment the user signed signs up to they get a win out of the product, meaning they get what they signed up for. And in my case with Nikki, they want to be able to create and sell a product as fast as possible. I was having a lot of problems in day 3. I really felt frustrated because I started to first feel like I'm not going to hit this deadline. I'm not going to be able to build this in 7 days. I thought to myself, do I need to start from scratch again? Did I just waste 2 days of my life and am I behind by 2 days? But at breakfast, I sat down and I decided, no, I can't think this way. I gotta pull this off and build a strong app. Day 4, I was tired, I was frustrated, but I had a little bit of a glimmer of hope. After a nice break and I jumped back onto the computer in the evening, I started to realize that this actually could be possible.