Faster, But At What Cost?

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Faster, But At What Cost?

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Oh. My. God. The AUDACITY of this comparison! 💀

Left side: One single, straight, boring track that takes FIVE HOURS of your precious life to build an app the old-fashioned way. Just you, your coffee, and your tears. Straight to destination despair.

Right side: A CHAOTIC MASTERPIECE of tracks going in sixty different directions that somehow delivers your app in FIVE MINUTES with AI agents. Sure, you have absolutely no idea where those tracks lead, what data they're collecting, or if your app will suddenly decide to become sentient and overthrow humanity.

But hey! It's 60x faster! Who needs control when you can have SPEED? Just don't ask what's happening in those mysterious junction boxes. The complexity is the feature, darling! 💅

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