AI Estimates 5-8 Weeks of Engineering; Developer Has Sub-Agents Finish It in Two Days
Dan_Jeffries1 · x · 2026-10-06
A developer shares the agentic-era contrast: his AI assistant estimated a task at '5-8 focused engineering weeks,' but he simply told it to spin up sub-agents and roll—done in two days. 'Ah, no, AGI. We're doing this over the next two days.'
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