I used LLMs to develop Whistle Enterprise (https://whistle-enterprise.com) from the ground up, from scratch.

It's taken _a lot_ of time and effort, but this is an example of what can be developed using LLMs alone.

You have to have dedication and a goal to reach, but you can absolutely build anything if you're building with the right foundations in mind.

I think the relevant question isn’t what can be built but the amount of effort in comparison to doing this the old fashioned way.

What do you think the productivity gain was from using an LLM? This question assumes you’re already an experienced developer.

	▲	motoroco 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		There’s no free lunch, it takes time and effort still. And expertise if you need it to be robust. In terms of velocity, let me offer some numbers. In 6 months I generated >150k lines of code and merged 10k PRs to ship and iterate on https://plotalong.app I follow best practices and isolate agents to continuously deployed dev environments, semi-manually review PRs and gate the release process between multiple protected envs. The project is getting close to 500 end-to-end tests in Playwright. That’s just working nights and weekends. Before AI, it took my team at the office 4 years to produce this much work. There are some qualitative differences but the speed and results are real
	▲	andai 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		n=1 but, a friend of mine spent the last few months working on an experimental music software with Claude. What he built is amazing and far beyond my abilities (I have been programming for 20 years). He doesn't know any programming. In fact, it's far beyond what I would even attempt, because I've just spent two decades building up a data bank of how hard things are supposed to be. He doesn't know it's supposed to be hard, so he just does it.

leguy 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

neat. I saw the "no bot joins the call". Is it obvious to others in the virtual meeting that you are using this tool?