This is how I was working last week:
1️⃣ I gave Cline a prompt.
2️⃣ It got to work.
3️⃣ I came back 20 minutes later.
4️⃣ Confirmed and approved.
🔁 Repeat.
It was a mix of tasks.
- Some were complex:
For this, I would use Claude Sonnet 3.7 or Gemini Pro 2.5.
- Most were trivial:
For this, I would use GPT-4.1-mini or GPT-4o (these are much cheaper).
In just 2 days, I migrated an entire (large) codebase from Pulumi to AWS CDK.
This type of work is trivial but very tedious and repetitive. And AI does absolutely amazing on this type of work.
With larger context windows, I can now instruct the AI to perform this repetitive type of work on a long list of files - and simply leave the computer and come back when it's done.
2 years ago, I would have had to pay a developer $50/hour to perform this migration, and it would have taken them 30+ hours easily.
That's at least $1,500.
Cline and GPT-4.1-mini did all of this for less than $20.
People who say AI will never replace developers... I'm sorry, but you're dead wrong.
AI won't replace *all* developers.
But it certainly will replace some!
(Probably even a lot)
It's already happening 👇
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