@corbin_braun: for context this same software if built by a team of devs and was pre AI would of taken 4 years to build.
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A founder claims that a large software project built with AI agents in 63 days (1.5M lines of code, 2,406 commits) would have taken a traditional dev team about four years pre-AI, highlighting AI's claimed acceleration of software development.
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for context
this same software
if built by a team of devs
and was pre AI
would of taken 4 years to build.
corbin (@corbin_braun): Oct 1, 2026. Launch day for **********.com
63 days ago I made the first commit. Since then:
1.5M lines of code 2,406 commits 1,288 merged pull requests 1 founder, a lot of AI agents
by the time you know what this is.
I would have made millions.
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