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
There is a point for growing software companies where adding people stops feeling like acceleration and starts feeling like braking.
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