Something I wish I knew earlier. · AI Automation Society

Something I wish I knew earlier.

I'm building a SaaS on my own, using AI tools to move faster than I ever could solo a few years ago. And somewhere along the way I'd built up this picture in my head of what the work should look like: smooth, fast, one win after another.

Here's my actual week. Two days lost to a database migration that should've taken an hour, an afternoon reading GDPR guidance instead of writing code, and one genuinely good moment where a feature I'd been stuck on finally worked and I sat there grinning at my screen like an idiot.

That's the real ratio. Mostly grind, occasionally magic.

I'm posting it because I'd have found it useful six months ago to know that the unglamorous middle is normal, not a sign you're doing it wrong. The AI doesn't remove the hard part. It just moves it somewhere new.

So if you're deep in the boring bit right now: same. Keep going.

What's the least glamorous thing you've worked on this week that actually mattered?

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