- The author's AI token usage increased from $600/month to $25K/month after joining Lovable, with an overall spend of $85K since January.
- Development evolved from a solo dev with few agents to a system with a dedicated agent managing swarms of subagents, boosting merged PRs from 20-30 to 150+ per week.
- Human review is now reserved for high-impact changes like RFCs and ADRs, not traditional code review, shifting focus to system design and infrastructure decisions.
- AI workflows classify PRs by risk level (high, medium, low), enforcing human review for high-risk changes and using AI reviews for others to manage scaling and risk.