"Four years of product development in four days, for $200. That's a pretty hefty claim. But, to my astonishment, it's true. It's also a matter of perspective. The math that works for me might not work for you. Obviously, this is an AI story. The $200 is the ChatGPT Pro plan, to which I upgraded to get more cycles out of the OpenAI Codex programming-tuned AI model. The results can only be described as extreme."
"I am not a full-time programmer. I am a formally trained computer scientist. I taught programming at the college level for years, but I don't make the majority of my living writing code. Over the years, I've seen my peers from college lose their edge as they left programming behind to move onto managerial responsibilities. My career track has been similar, but I didn't want to fall behind on my technical skills."
A formally trained computer scientist with college-level teaching experience maintained multiple technical projects and invested in continuing education to retain programming skills. Two legacy products were acquired and converted to freemium models, preserving core open-source offerings while adding paid add-ons. An upgrade to ChatGPT Pro provided access to the OpenAI Codex programming-tuned model for increased cycles and nonstop coding assistance. The subscription accelerated development to extreme levels, reducing context switching and shifting effort distribution so that marketing work began to take longer than development. The cost of the subscription was $200, which yielded outsized productivity gains.
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