Where a model earns its place in real engineering work, and where it confidently does not.
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Every change on my side projects now starts as a spec, not a prompt. How OpenSpec structures the work between me and an LLM: feature-sized changes, open questions I have to answer myself, and documentation that accumulates as a by-product of shipping.
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Manual Cloud Build deploys of this site took about six minutes. An LLM read the build log, I shipped a chain of small fixes, and typical runs are now around two.
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Thirty days of noisy request logs from an outside project, an LLM as analyst, and a small Cloudflare WAF — scanner garbage at the origin went from dozens a day to zero.