Our creative renderings are now influenced by pixels instead of dreams. Walter Rhein.

Enrique Dans. 3 min read.

The Trade-off Between Mastery and Speed in Modern Development.

The Trade-off Between Mastery and Speed. With so many overblown headlines, it's challenging to get a clear grasp of the productivity improvements that AI coding tools like ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, and Cursor truly bring. At our studio, we've found these AI coding tools offer noticeable productivity gains. While some claim a 10x increase, our experience aligns more with a modest yet significant improvement. In fact, a recent Google study estimates an average 21% improvement in developer productivity for AI users. We're not in the strongly anti-AI camp. On the contrary, we believe it has made our engineers — most of whom are senior — more productive. Yet, at the same time, we've grown concerned about the long-term effects of over-dependence on AI tools. In the long run, will it make us worse at writing software? Does it deprive us of practice, causing us to learn more slowly?

What if your wildest AI idea is the same as everyone else’s?

Aven is a fintech startup (founded in 2019 by Sadi Khan, Series D) that specializes in homeowner-backed credit products and operates out of Burlingame, CA. This document analyzes Aven’s current business model and identifies opportunities where our AI-driven solutions could significantly enhance their profitability and market performance.

On a construction site, hundreds of workers, dozens of subcontractors, and tons of materials intersect daily. While excavators are digging the foundation, fake time entries can “dig” holes in payroll, and phantom deliveries may be recorded for materials that never arrived. All of this eats into profits, delays timelines, and creates compliance risks. We solved the issue of “ghost workers” at the gate by building BuildGuard — a smart Face ID terminal that identifies workers in fractions of a second, verifies their access permits, and updates the attendance log without a single click from an administrator.

Lead: Holiday CAC in U.S. e-commerce now jumps 2.5-3× during Black Friday/Cyber Monday and still doubles through December.([upcounting.com](https://www.upcounting.com/blog/average-ecommerce-customer-acquisition-cost?utm_source=chatgpt.com)) Brands that pipe diffusion-generated display banners straight into Telegram Mini Apps are seeing one-third lower acquisition costs and fresher creative every hour—no design queue, no format fatigue.

Lead: Native mobile apps burn six-figure budgets and still leak shoppers at checkout. A lightweight Telegram Mini App, powered by an LLM “concierge” and Stripe (or PayPal/Venmo) Payment Links, can be prototyped in a single evening and—on real pilots—has delivered an 18 % bump in conversion without a line of native-code.