What plans are you using, what did you build, what was the output from both on similar inputs, what's an example of a prompt that took you two hours to write, what was the output, etc?
I'll try to answer these one by one, but I will just note that a lot of my prompts are domain specific so it's hard to share those.
- I don't use any plans — my writing is the plan. The Plan Mode in Claude Code is excellent, but as I've switched to Codex (which doesn't have one) I will simply write up a nice long prompt and then add "Please ask any clarifying questions you may have, or for any additional details that you need" — and it works great! I may go back and forth for anywhere from 5-30 minutes depending on what else is needed, but that's basically the experience of using Plan Mode in Claude Code too.
- I've built quite a few recent features for my app Plinky [^1]. I've made a few meaningful contributions to my open source project Boutique [^2] (and have been having AI asynchronously sketch out a large new database relationships feature). I built my new blog and my workshops pages [^3] with Codex as well. Truth is I do practically everything in Codex and Claude Code these days, so I'd have more trouble listing what I haven't built lately.
- Plinky's upcoming Reader Mode is a good example of a prompt that took me two hours, but the feature isn't yet in the app so I'd prefer not to share the prompt. But I can share the first draft of the prompt for Boutique's relationships feature sine that's open source. [^4] I've been experimenting with using ChatGPT Pulse to make progress on it every day (simply by asking it to!), and much to my surprise it's been designing a new API day by day in a way that's far from perfect but certaintly has been very interesting.
The honest truth is that this one did not take two hours and I wrote it on the bus so it's probably not perfect, but the descriptive process is effectively the same. For a feature like Reader Mode you would have to capture more details to scale up to the additional complexity of a domain-specific feature with client and server components, a new download queueing pipeline, amongst other abstractions.
Hope that answers your questions!
[^1]: https://plinky.app [^2]: https://github.com/mergesort/Boutique [^3]: https://build.ms [^4]: https://gist.github.com/mergesort/04a77c47ea4cb6433aa9ade4e1...