yes exactly. Too many people ask AI to one-shot complex tasks, and wonder it behaves like a junior asked to rush something.

I have my own skill: 5 rounds of research/planning/test-planning. Interactive with me in loop for all important decisions. Starts with high level shape, then details. Planning can take 2-3 days of my time, then the implementation agent can take many hours (Opus 4.7). It splits the implementation across many phases/commits, each with its own code-review fix loop. Deep code review at the end can take another hour or two. It opens a PR, Gemini reviews, it reads out and resolves those issues.

Projects still take days or weeks, but 5x faster than doing it all myself.

Edit: the skill - https://github.com/scosman/vibe-crafting

Even fully planned it’s still no better than a junior dev. You’re leaving out how much back and forth you have the ai do on itself, which you’d have on a junior dev too. In the end does it matter if it’s giving you what you want? Guess not really. But let’s not act like it’s crazy good when you’re still doing a lot of rounds of revisions on something an experienced dev would know to do right the first time.

Does the 5x faster including shipping? Or just the work part?

IMO if you are not shipping out faster then the faster work gains are meaningless.

If you are shipping faster, you’re probably picking up more work and shipping everything too fast leading to burnout.