I love Claude Code, but this feels a bit like the perennial "our team spent a year on project X and then some intern built the same thing in a hackathon" claims. The hard part isn't writing the code, it's investigating, testing, integrating, etc. A rule of thumb I've seen in some places (Google certainly seems applicable) is the project will take a month for every day it takes to make the prototype.
Which is no shade on Claude Code, but given everything CC has already done, this seems pretty normal.
Which is no shade on Claude Code, but given everything CC has already done, this seems pretty normal.