The last tenth of a project takes most of the work, because what is left at the end is all detail.

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• What a finished work is remembered for comes down to a few key pieces, and most of the work that went into it barely matters. TSTynan Sylvester18 Dec 2013
• The last 20% of building an app with AI is like 80% of the time. BWBrett Williams16 Jun 2026
• An AI you have to supervise at 90 percent is not 90 percent task completion: you are still doing the thing. RURoman Ugarte8 Sept 2026
• AI has done the first ninety per cent of the work of sounding human, and the last five per cent will turn out to be about ninety-five per cent of the work. DHDan Houser31 Oct 2025
• There is almost no end state to a project: it has to reach a point where everybody has given as much of what makes them unique to it, and then it is usually in a state it otherwise could not get to. MSMarvin Schwaibold2 Apr 2026

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