I got 4 years of product development done in 4 days for $200, and I'm still stunned

Can $200 buy years of productivity? My latest AI experiment turned side projects into full products almost overnight, and the possibilities suddenly seem endless.

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• ChatGPT Pro delivers nonstop coding assistance.
• Context switching, once a bottleneck, disappears.
• Marketing now takes longer than development.

Four years of product development in four days, for $200. That's a pretty hefty claim. But, to my astonishment, it's true. It's also a matter of perspective. The math that works for me might not work for you.

Obviously, this is an AI story. The $200 is the ChatGPT Pro plan, to which I upgraded to get more cycles out of the OpenAI Codex programming-tuned AI model. The results can only be described as extreme.

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