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So far about 200US.

My workload is:

- clone my Rails boilerplate (simple app skeleton with: auth [rolify, devise, devise-passwordless], vite [tailwind, flowbite], friendly urls, pagy, ransack, and smtp). I've got a few sample pages and user profile edit along with an administrative area for user and role management. That's it.

- bring in Claude Code and ask to gonthrought the codename to get familiar.

- obviously by now I know what I want to build and i have got my scope written down or I just know it by heart.

- I divide the scope in portions that I feel are the logical trayection of the app, so my instructions make sense, we don't build models ahead of models that are dependant on the former.

- start passing instructions to build the app block by block. Model to model...

- finally add things like email notifications for which I would pass every single controller action I want a notification for. Everything generic with a wide spread in the app goes in this phase.

That's more or less it... like I said, I've build a few fully functional prod read apps so far.



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