'Built in 2 hours with AI' is a mirage: dev describes mid-project token burn hell
NoPower5561 · reddit · 2026-11-02
A Redditor pushes back on the "full-stack app in 2 hours with AI" demos flooding social media. Scaffolding and base features go blazingly fast with Claude/Codex, but past a complexity threshold the model gets bogged down, tokens and context burn, and the last 20% stalls. They ask real shippers: spec-driven development, codebase indexing, sub-agents — or hand-coding the endgame?
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