AI wrote the first 90% of my app in an afternoon. The last 10% took three weeks.
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There's an old programmer's joke: the first 90% of the code takes 90% of the time, and the remaining 10% takes the other 90% of the time. I used to tell it as a joke. Then I let AI write a whole SaaS — auth, Stripe billing, a dashboard, a public API — and the joke stopped being funny. Because AI ma…
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- 2026-10-27 10:25 · DEV Community — AI
AI wrote the first 90% of my app in an afternoon. The last 10% took three weeks.