I remember pirating some old sales/business motivational tapes in my late teens and hearing about the 80/20 rule. The pareto principle. I think it applies here, sort of. The other thing floating thru my mind as I read is that the finish work sucks, in every trade. I'm here writing this comment instead of the documentation for some code I wrote today. As excited as I am about it I think I'll call it a workday and ship it in the morning. I'm happy I'm not on a construction jobsite where it makes more sense to just grind through it and go home a zombie than to drive back tomorrow. That last 15% is just always gonna be a slog, and it can make or break the final product.
Chad - lol . You nailed it. We all know staring at an empty page is hard, AI made that easy. Now, we are realizing the last 15% was actually the hardest part, and we just did a lot of that with conversations early and closed it out later.
But doing that when something feels close just seems daunting.
I remember pirating some old sales/business motivational tapes in my late teens and hearing about the 80/20 rule. The pareto principle. I think it applies here, sort of. The other thing floating thru my mind as I read is that the finish work sucks, in every trade. I'm here writing this comment instead of the documentation for some code I wrote today. As excited as I am about it I think I'll call it a workday and ship it in the morning. I'm happy I'm not on a construction jobsite where it makes more sense to just grind through it and go home a zombie than to drive back tomorrow. That last 15% is just always gonna be a slog, and it can make or break the final product.
Chad - lol . You nailed it. We all know staring at an empty page is hard, AI made that easy. Now, we are realizing the last 15% was actually the hardest part, and we just did a lot of that with conversations early and closed it out later.
But doing that when something feels close just seems daunting.