SMRTR ProgrammingMay 31, 2026Hacker News

The Speed of Prototyping in the Age of AI

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AI has fundamentally changed the prototyping workflow — not just the speed, but the shape of engineering thinking itself. One developer reports averaging 4x faster time-to-PR, shipping multiple working language and tooling projects that would previously have stalled as READMEs. The tradeoff is real: staying deliberately hands-on matters, but the freed-up bandwidth unlocks exploration and broader impact at work.

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