Case 06 / 09Short record
Three to four weeks estimated,three days shipped.
The old Django version vanished from pip. Context, plans, and agentic workflows turned a failed manual attempt into a production release.
3 daysTo production
3-4 weeksOriginal estimate
A Django version more than 10 years old disappeared from pip.
Docker images could no longer be rebuilt. A manual attempt broke everything, and the estimate was 3 to 4 weeks.
Three days from plan to production.
Day one established complete context and plans with ChatGPT. Day two completed the refactor with Cursor. Day three polished and shipped it. The workflow was then taught to the team.
Which opened the next problem
Speed only counts if a small team can repeat it. Five platforms tested that.
Case 07 / 06