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When you built this exact product, how long did it take you to reach 80% compatibility?


>> how long did it take you to reach 80% compatibility?

Honest question: when the formal spec isn't really a spec how do you even measure "80% compatibility"?


We don’t have a formal '% compatibility' metric yet, but it’s on our radar as a feedback loop mechanism for self-improvement.

For now, we mostly rely on testing with our own and customer docs. In practice, we were seeing solid results after a couple of days of keeping Claude working in the loop and giving lots of feedback: .docx files along with screenshots annotated to highlight what didn’t work.


This is a very naive mindset, getting the last 10% is going to be 90% of the work. Learn from other projects that have tried and failed. I can guarantee you LibreOffice was not built with "our own and customer docs" as a test harness.




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