The 94-Step Process That's Killing Your Productivity

Watching someone build with AI yesterday reminded me why I completely changed my workflow back in July.

They were doing the classic:

Copy code from ChatGPT (hope they got it all)
Paste to Notepad++ (formatting's destroyed)
Save as... (was it .py or .js again?)
Run it (doesn't work)
Copy the error message back
Get new code
Where did they paste that first part?
What file was that?
Repeat 47 times

That's 94 opportunities to mess up for ONE project.

Did the math for them: 50+ copy-paste cycles × 2 minutes each = 100 minutes just moving code around. Not writing code. Not solving problems. Just copying and pasting.

This used to be me:

Building a customer automation tool took 3 hours. But only 45 minutes were actual problem-solving. The rest? Copy. Paste. Save. Test. Copy error. Paste. Save. Test.

I knew there had to be a better way. Found it in July. Can't believe more people don't know about it.

The solution I've been using for months:

File access. The AI can edit files directly on your computer.

No copying. No pasting. Just: "Build me a customer follow-up system" and it creates the files, writes the code, tests it, fixes errors. All without touching anything.

That 100-minute copy-paste marathon? Completely eliminated.

Two ways to get this working: