In early 2024, Alan Wells acquired a small SaaS business, a golf app with the intention of operating it independently. A veteran of engineering teams at Cruise and Uber, he had spent years building automated systems. This time, the goal was more straightforward: manage a modest software product and gradually improve it using AI tools.
Three months in, Wells hit a wall. The app’s codebase spanned more than 100,000 lines, lacked documentation, and made routine support queries a daily challenge. Then came a shift where large context language models capable of analyzing entire codebases at once had started to emerge. Wells loaded the full source code into one of these models and began asking technical questions. The response time dropped from hours to seconds.
“It felt like I’d bee
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Tasks that used to take me half a day were done in under two minutes.
