We’ve all heard the stories about AI and how much faster it supposedly makes you at building software. Some people say they’ve become 10x or even 100x developers. Others say LLMs produce garbage, code nobody can maintain, and a steady stream of slop.
While I’ve read plenty of those arguments, what I’ve almost never seen is a number. So I ran the test on myself.
There’s an app I’d been meaning to build as a side project anyway. And to be completely transparent, part of this post is me marketing it. A small part. The numbers are why I wrote it.
What’s being built
It’s a mobile app where users can play multiplayer mini games with some twist. One of the games is Battleships with additional power-ups (bombs, mines, torpedoes). Users can play for free or they can make things a bit interesting and stake crypto. The winner wins the staked amount and the platform takes a small fee. The fees are spent on app maintenance, prize pool for tournaments/rankings and for referrals.
