Too many teams invest in AI features that customers notice first, rather than the parts of the product they actually depend on.
AI didn't just make building faster. It made it easier to skip the thinking that building used to force. Here's what I ran into when I built my own tool in a few hours, and what it reminded me about judgment in a world where the cost of action keeps dropping.
I remember the feeling the first time my ELEN 348 lab project worked. I got that feeling again on Saturday over my morning coffee.
Adding AI to a product is getting easier. Turning it into a durable advantage is not. This piece looks at why so many companies can point to AI activity without ending up with a meaningfully stronger product position, and the question that helps separate scattered experimentation from something that actually compounds.ost Description
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