Building in 2026: 15 minutes of prompting, 5 hours of waiting
kylegawley · x · 2026-11-02
Developer Kyle Gawley sums up building software in 2026 in one line: 15 minutes of prompting, 5 hours of waiting.
A short, resonant joke about how long-running coding agents have turned development into a prompt-and-wait workflow.
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