Shipped a full feature in one day with AI - here's the actual time breakdown (not a weekend project)

Everyone posts about building entire apps in a day with AI but I rarely see anyone talk about what it actually looks like when you have paying customers, medium complexity infra, and expectations around quality.

So here's my breakdown:

~1h - Standup and feature discussion

~2h - Creating an implementation plan (back and forth with Claude Code on architecture, what scales, what we can reuse, infra changes)

13 min - Claude's actual implementation

~1h - Updating infra: secrets, new queue, permissions etc.

~1h - Fighting with Claude to follow our Figma design

~30 min - Adding missing functionality

~2h - Testing edge cases and fixing as I go

~1h - Testing on staging with the team and deploying live

Given that this same feature would've taken an engineer about a week before AI, it's a huge improvement. But I'm still spending around 5 hours on infra, testing, and QA and I feel like that can be improved even further.

Curious what others are doing to speed this up?