AI makes weeks of work take hours, but knowing when to stop is harder than ever
brandon_galang · x · 2026-09-15
A developer reflects on AI's double-edged impact on engineering and product work: tasks that once took weeks or months can now be done in hours, for both easy and hard problems. The new difficulty is knowing when to stop—it's tempting to explore one more angle or launch one more agent run. Prioritization, always crucial, matters even more in AI-augmented work.
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