100 Hours (or Snakes and Camels will keep me employed)
No, I'm not getting ready to hack off my arm in a desperate act of survival. I've now crossed the 100-hour threshold for using an AI Agent to rewrite my personal financial site. Before I'd waded into the deep end of the project, I was targeting 120 hours for site completion. Why 120 hours? Because if I didn't finish in 120 hours, I was going to cut my arm off in frustration. Or, alternatively, it was a good benchmark for determining what amount of effort I could devote to a theoretical client without burning myself out and charging a reasonable rate. My line of thought was thus: A standard work month is 160 hours (40 hours by 4 weeks). If I budgeted 120 hours for working on the site and 40 hours for client meetings, design reviews, and rework, then I could fit the work into a neat little package of one month. Well, really two, because 160 hours across two months gives me room to adjust if my package dimensions aren't reas...
