| ▲ | bob1029 14 hours ago | |
In context of B2B SaaS products that require a high degree of customization per client, I think there could be an argument for this figure. The biggest bottleneck I have seen is converting the requirements into code fast enough to prove to the customer that they didn't give us the right/sufficient requirements. Up until recently, you had to avoid spending time on code if you thought the requirements were bad. Throwing away 2+ weeks of work on ambiguity is a terrible time. Today, you could hypothetically get lucky on a single prompt and be ~99% of the way there in one shot. Even if that other 1% sucks to clean up, imagine if it was enough to get the final polished requirements out of the customer. You could crap out an 80% prototype in the time it takes you to complete one daily standup call. Is the fact that it's only 80% there bad? I don't think so in this context. Handing a customer something that almost works is much more productive than fucking around with design documents and ensuring requirements are perfectly polished to developer preferences. A slightly wrong thing gets you the exact answer a lot faster than nothing at all. | ||