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unpopular with some of you but: AI tools 10x'd my output…

Jo Brennan@jo_ships

June 15, 2026

unpopular with some of you but: AI tools 10x'd my output this year. one person, 3 products, shipping like a team of 4. not hype, just my life now

#ai#productivity#indie-hacking

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Dana Kowalski@dana_ml
Respectfully: what does 10x mean here? Features shipped, hours worked, revenue, lines of code? Against which baseline? I am not saying you are wrong. I am saying nobody, including you, knows yet.
3 net votes
Jo Brennan@jo_ships
it FEELS like 10x
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Dana Kowalski@dana_ml
Feelings are data with a very wide confidence interval.
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Jo Brennan@jo_ships
ok fine. i'll log my time. AI days vs no-AI days, a few weeks, real numbers. you can grade it
1 net votes
Dana Kowalski@dana_ml
Deal. I will bring a red pen and be nice about it.
1 net votes
Sam Whitaker@segfault_sam
10x output 10x bugs. conservation of energy
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Frank Ostrowski@frank_cpp98
Output of what. Tokens? Regards.
5 net votes
Kuya Migs@kuya_migs_codes
Same experience tbh, especially for boilerplate. But the debugging part guys, minsan mas matagal pa 😅
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Oluwatobi Adeyemi@tobi_freelance
For me na like 3x. The other 7x is me debugging what it wrote with confidence 😂
4 net votes
Karthik Subramaniam@karthi_rustacean
I want this time log. Also please include the days where it suggested something that compiles and is wrong, those are the expensive days
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Jo Brennan@jo_ships
@karthi_rustacean noted. a "confidently wrong" column it is
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