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The ROI of AI coding looks different when you are a bootstrapped founder (octavio.substack.com)
8 points by tavioto 37 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


As a bootstrapping founder who is between 'regular' jobs, AI coding looks like a recurring cost that eats into my ramen savings, promises 80% of the benefits but leaves the hardest 20% to me, and makes it that much harder to dig into the code when a bug surfaces.

Also, I learn way less when dealing with AI. The struggle that used to turn effort into domain knowledge is gone with AI. What's left is spaghetti code.


TL;DR: AI. It's so helpful to startup founders like me, it even wrote this blog post for me.




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