[rnimmer]

My immediate reaction was, "Only 7?" but that may not be a fair thing to think, depending on what the constraints were.

The shift I've experienced is something akin to being able to finally focus on the aspects I've always enjoyed most: architecture and user experience. I review all the code, but through iteration my prompts have gotten better, and for the most part my automated codemonkey 'employee' produces good code. It's not reasonable to expect complex things to be one-shot; UX improvements always require follow-ups, and features need to be divided and conquered one at a time. Engineers who lack those higher level skills will struggle. You are leading a small team now, not just plugging away at implementing user stories.

[jmull]

> My immediate reaction was, "Only 7?"

Anyone could ship thousands of projects, depending on the definition of "ship" and if you don't care what value the project has beyond notionally increasing your tally.

[rnimmer]

So the same thing the rest of my sentence gave credence to, the part you deleted?