DRAFTEleven Years in Forty-One Days
On February 22, 2026, I started tracking every task I delegated to AI. Not as a vague estimate or a gut feeling, but with a structured methodology: for each task, I recorded how long a senior engineer familiar with the codebase would take, how long the AI actually took, and how long I spent writing the prompt. Forty-one days later, the numbers tell a story I did not expect.