It takes 10 messages to validate, 100 to ship an MVP, and 1,000 for production
tristanbob · x · 2026-07-26
The post gives a blunt rule of thumb for agentic coding tools: it may take 10 messages to prove an idea works, 100 messages to get an MVP ready, and 1,000 messages to make an app production-ready.
It is a compact but useful framing of how quickly the interaction cost grows as the scope moves from validation to shipping to hardening.
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