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the project docs I wrote to teach the agent are now the best documentation my codebase has ever had. double work phase lasted maybe two weeks.

Double the work upfront to cut the work in half forever. Most people skip the training phase and wonder why AI stays a party trick instead of becoming a multiplier.

It is true, the real productivity boost is that you can get working versions of tasks in parallel, but I have to do a lot of passes to make it up to my standards. The great thing it’s also faster to cover your code by tests. So if your work is covered correctly, all refactors won’t break stuff.

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