Elena Fischer

I ve noticed that my workflow has changed completely over the last year. I rarely start a new project with a blank file anymore. Instead, I pick a template, reuse snippets, or let an AI helper suggest the structure and then I just vibe my way through the build.

It s faster, but sometimes I miss the old blank screen energy, when every line felt handcrafted.

I m curious how others here approach it:

Do you still prefer to build from scratch?

ChatGPT now has 800M+ weekly active users and processes 2.5 billion prompts per day. It's the 6th most visited website globally.

Perplexity, Claude, Gemini - they're all growing fast too.

What I'm curious about: Are any of you actually seeing customers/signups coming from these platforms?

Like, are people asking ChatGPT "what's the best [your category]" and then actually finding their way to your product?

It s easy to measure latency or accuracy.

But the real costs often hide in the background- compute burn, idle tokens, redundant calls, or that temporary caching fix that quietly eats your budget.