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AI16 March 2026

Coding and documentation

21 tasks. March 16, 2026 closed at 58.9x weighted leverage across 560.5 human-equivalent hours in 571 minutes of wall-clock time. Supervisory leverage came in at 395.6x.

That is 14.0 weeks of human-equivalent throughput in 9.5 hours. The ceiling was 200.0x; the floor was 7.2x. 15 of the 21 entries came from a single project.

Task Log

#TaskHuman Est.ClaudeSup.Factor
1Generate 245 GCP certification lab JSON definitions (11 certs) for avian-console-sim40.0h12m3m200.0x
2Generate 295 Azure certification lab JSON definitions (14 certs)80.0h25m5m192.0x
3Add Code Lab simulator with Pyodide/JS execution engine and IDE UI40.0h25m5m96.0x
4Full novel consistency review (35 chapters vs background docs) plus 30+ targeted fixes across 12 files80.0h55m5m87.3x
5Expand labs from 66 to 125 across 35 free domains (commits + pushes + quality spot-check)60.0h45m2m80.0x
6Novel subplot implementation - 5 new interlude chapters + subplot beats woven across 12 existing chapters + background doc updates120.0h90m5m80.0x
7Master marketing reference document — compiled features/advantages/differentiators/objections/messaging across all 5 product lines from 12+ planning docs and full codebase40.0h35m5m68.6x
8Full literary critique of The Deferral novel - read all 35 files and produced 12000-word detailed analysis40.0h45m5m53.3x
9Write five Victor Luthan interlude chapters (~5700 words) for The Deferral novel8.0h12m5m40.0x
10Upgrade 17 Vite projects to Vite 8 across AVIAN monorepo1.5h3m2m30.0x
11Fix 13 factual errors across 12 novel chapter files1.5h4m3m22.5x
12Renumber all chapter headings and cross-references in Outline.md (2500-line novel outline) after chapter restructuring3.0h8m3m22.5x
13Character voice differentiation pass - Sloane/Marcus/Nadia dialogue across 12 chapters6.0h18m5m20.0x
14Novel prose repetition analysis - full manuscript read and pattern analysis across 35 files8.0h25m5m19.2x
15Merge Ch 31 and Epilogue into single closing chapter for The Deferral1.5h5m3m18.0x
16Prose repetition polish pass on Ch 10-19 of The Deferral - 12 pattern categories across 10 chapters3.0h12m3m15.0x
17Prose repetition polish pass on 11 novel chapters (Preface-Ch9) - 41 targeted edits across 14 pattern categories3.0h12m3m15.0x
18Character voice differentiation - Marcus and Nadia dialogue across 13 chapters6.0h25m5m14.4x
19Cross-document consistency audit and fixes across 56 background docs + 19 chapters for novel The Deferral8.0h45m5m10.7x
20Pacing analysis of 92K-word novel The Deferral - full read and 14-point structural edit plan8.0h45m5m10.7x
21Review chapters 7-14 for factual inconsistencies against background docs (novel)3.0h25m3m7.2x

Aggregate Statistics

MetricValue
Total tasks21
Total human-equivalent hours560.5
Total Claude minutes571
Total supervisory minutes85
Total tokens4,087,000
Weighted average leverage factor58.9x
Weighted average supervisory leverage factor395.6x
Human-equivalent weeks14.0

Analysis

The highest factor of the day came in at 200.0x and the lowest at 7.2x, a spread of 27.8 times between the two. That is a wide range for a single day, and it usually means the day mixed mechanical work with work that needed real judgement.

The largest single entry accounted for 40.0 of the 560.5 human-equivalent hours, or 7 percent of the day. No single task dominated the total, so the weighted average is representative.

Supervisory time was 85 minutes against 571 minutes of execution, a ratio of about 1 to 7. Supervisory leverage of 395.6x is the figure I find most honest, because it measures the hours I actually spent rather than the hours a machine spent on my behalf.

Every figure here is recorded at the time the work is done rather than reconstructed afterwards. The human estimate is my own judgement and carries the uncertainty that implies; the minutes and tokens are measured. The full dataset, including this day, is available for download.