Indie hacker reality check: AI gains often wiped out by prompting and double-checking
Inevitable-Bell6638 · reddit · 2026-08-24
An indie developer shares a candid take: AI genuinely helps with copy drafting, boilerplate code and feedback summarization, but the time spent prompting, reprompting and crosschecking outputs means "some days it nets out close to neutral."
They ask the community which tasks went from painful to easy with AI and stayed easy, and note the cost side: at $20–40/month per tool across five or six subscriptions, the ROI math gets hard to justify. Curious what people kept in their stack after six months versus what got quietly cancelled.
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