Stop asking AI how long something will take. Estimate it yourself, split the work into three tiers, add back what AI doesn't compress, then convert effort into a real timeline.
When code is cheap, judgment is priceless.
Your own expert estimate. This is the anchor everything else adjusts from.
AI does not speed up every kind of work equally.
Applied as a percentage of the adjusted core effort above.
Give stakeholders the range, not the single number — a single number gets treated as a promise. Recalibrate the multipliers above as you gather real data from your own team.
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