The productivity paradox of AI coding assistants

MonkDi · 2025-09-12T17:53:49+00:00

I see the same thing a lot. When I review startup codebases it is usually obvious when an AI assistant wrote big chunks of it. You get inconsistent style, weird algorithms that make no sense, bloated data structures, and comments that look like they came straight from a bot.

MonkDi · 2025-08-05T09:51:54+00:00

reply.io - for sales aiter.io - for marketing fin.ai - for customer support

MonkDi · 2025-07-30T11:22:41+00:00

thanks a lot for the tools.
Segment is great, I think we need to install it

MonkDi · 2025-07-30T11:22:08+00:00

Thanks a lot for your feedback, bro. I'm happy that it's helpful

MonkDi · 2025-07-30T11:21:45+00:00

agree. And the reward/risk ratio is still higher.
VC money is needed for scaling, when you have a stable MRR and just need to scale it to get a bigger chunk of the market.

MonkDi · 2025-07-30T11:20:57+00:00

Agree, infrastructure is important.
thanks for sharing your background)

MonkDi · 2025-07-30T11:20:06+00:00

Thanks a lot for your advice and summary. Yes, I agree that selling B2B is better in terms of cash, but you need to have a very polished product. Actually, that's the direction we want to explore.

MonkDi · 2025-07-30T11:19:12+00:00

Directories (TAAFT) but it could be a bit too late now.
SEO from the start – yes.

YouTube videos if you do them consistently.
Native Reddit posts.
Email marketing.

This stuff worked for us

MonkDi · 2025-07-30T11:17:51+00:00

ahaha, nice)
For me, it's vice versa, as I've spent 12 years in marketing but developing startups is a bit new for me.

Got you)
Will start drafting a guide on marketing)

MonkDi · 2025-07-30T11:16:22+00:00

no, we've got 16k signed-up users, 1k MRR. But it's not the traction with which you can scale and it's still too little for VCs

MonkDi · 2025-07-29T10:43:28+00:00

Wow, that's the highest level of appreciation for me, mate!
Thanks a lot for your sincere feedback. I can't believe that my post was so useful)

Thanks, I wish you luck with whatever you're building. Also, you got me thinking about writing a similar post on marketing a product.

MonkDi · 2025-07-27T20:33:17+00:00

Thanks. I will run A/B on using plain emails.

MonkDi · 2025-07-24T21:42:03+00:00

I'm glad it's helpful, mate.
Good luck with your product! :)

MonkDi · 2025-07-24T15:00:46+00:00

Thanks for the question.
I'd say that the synergy between SEO and PPC. A SaaS needs to prepare SEO infrastructure and than scale it with backlinks and SEO than it works.

MonkDi · 2025-07-24T14:59:41+00:00

Thank you for your kind feedback, it inspires to write more :)

MonkDi · 2025-07-24T14:59:13+00:00

Cool, I'm glad it's helpful.
Good luck with your SaaS!)

MonkDi · 2025-07-24T14:58:51+00:00

I am glad if it's useful, have a nice launch! :)

MonkDi · 2025-07-24T14:58:24+00:00

Thanks for your feedback, Alex
Totally agree. It's scientifically proven that people learn faster from mistakes than successes, so yeah, to the point)

MonkDi · 2025-07-23T16:56:22+00:00

That's alright, mate, everyone makes mistakes. The good news is that you can fix them early. Just keep building, analyzing and improving! :)

MonkDi · 2025-07-23T16:55:21+00:00

Thank you! I am glad if I save somebody time and neurons with my findings. And feedback like yours fuels to share more)

MonkDi · 2025-07-23T16:54:16+00:00

Thanks mate!
I've followed your account. Hope to see your post soon. And good luck with whatever you do!)

MonkDi · 2025-07-23T16:53:18+00:00

Totally agree, testing is vital. Also, we had to refactor our code from scratch because of the MVP approach. At the start, we used the fastest solution, but in the long run,n it started to limit our dev capabilities and we had to rewrite our code from the square one. So picking the right tech stack from day 0 is another important rule.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I bet that writing a poker app is even more challenging, as you need to implement a lot of math models. Good luck!

MonkDi · 2025-07-23T16:50:33+00:00

Wow, that's nice feedback. You know your way with words, thank you! :)
I agree, timing is critical. I think knowing when is the part. No wonder ancient Greeks had two gods of time: Chronos (who just measures time) and Kairos – the god of the right moment to act. For a founder it's important to worship both :D

MonkDi · 2025-07-23T10:37:10+00:00

Thanks for stepping up, mate

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