The Bottleneck Is Moving. Most Orgs Are Not.
Organizations adopting AI in product development are shipping more and delivering worse outcomes. Not because AI failed them, but because it exposes a weakness they'd been hiding behind build-time.
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Organizations adopting AI in product development are shipping more and delivering worse outcomes. Not because AI failed them, but because it exposes a weakness they'd been hiding behind build-time.
Reflection
Clear ×Every model release quietly resets part of what you know. The prompt that pulled a brilliant answer out of 4.2 can wreck the response in 5.5. If execution is no longer the bottleneck, what is?
Solutions are easy. Problems are hard. When the barrier to building goes down, the risk of building the wrong thing goes up. The real competitive advantage isn't the ability to build quickly — it's the ability to choose wisely.
AI does not replace the work that matters. It replaces the work around the work that matters. If you bring expertise and judgement, these tools will multiply you. If you bring vagueness and hope, they will multiply that too.
Digital transformation was often for the few. AI transformation requires everyone. Ten years later, the same trainee group met again — and this time, the conversation is entirely different.
To build something great, you must first be willing to be truly, unapologetically bad at it. I'm building 30 agents and stepping straight into unfamiliar territory.
Hashtags do not save the world — knowledge and your actions do. Applause creates feelings. Action creates change.
Around 4.5 years ago, my partner and I started dreaming about a house on a lot near my parents. What followed was less a construction project and more a product journey.
We have centuries-old rites of passage for life's milestones — but almost none for the products we build and kill. Maybe we should.
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