It's really not. As a one-person IT department I'm now able to build things in hours or days that it previously would have taken my weeks or even months to build (and thus they didn't get done). Things people have wanted for years that I didn't ever have the time for, I can now say "yes" to.

> Is writing it by hand the old-fashioned way not on the table?

Of course it is. I started a (commercial) product in Jan, on track for in-field testing at the end of April.

Of course, it's not my f/time job, so I've only been working on it a/hours, but, with the exception of two functions, everything else is hand-coded.

I rubber-ducked with AI, but they never wrote the product for me (other than those two functions which I felt too lazy to copy from an existing project and fixup to work in the new project).

Not really. Many scenarios where that would mean spending 50x the time or hiring a team.

Absolutely not. I took on some thins that would normally take 5-10 people and many months.

Some people are turn out slop. I was really excited to try and make some impressive shit. My whole life has been dedicated to trying to embody what Apple preached in the early days.

I knew this was coming, but I thought I had a little more time to try and get them over the finish line, ya know?

Maintenance by hand might be achievable, but it’s extremely hard when you’ve built something really big.

I’ve only got so much savings left to live on.

I’m not saying anyone owes me anything, but we all need to pivot and in a lot less sure my pivot is going to work out now

What am I an assembler programmer now?!? Am I to plug wires and flip switches!?!

/s