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Thoughts on shipping, building, and getting out of your own way.
Discovery Phases Are a Scam
A discovery phase is what happens when a consultant doesn't know what to build and wants to bill you while they figure it out. Scope can be closed in a single 2-hour call. The secret is asking questions that make founders uncomfortable.
The Only Skill That Matters Is Saying No
Every feature you don't build is a week you ship earlier. Most founders can't do this because they're emotionally attached to their roadmap. We're not. Here's a framework for killing features before they kill the timeline.
Your Codebase Should Fix Itself
Agents in the loop from day one. Bug comes in, issue gets created, PR gets opened, tests run, human reviews, ships to prod. In this model, the marginal cost of a bug fix is an API call. The marginal cost of a feature request is a conversation.
Tokens Are the New Headcount
The unit of capacity used to be "engineers on payroll." Now it's tokens per month. A two-person team with the right setup can do what used to require ten. Here's the math, and why most companies are still hiring like it's 2019.
Taste Can't Be Automated (Yet)
AI can write code. AI can fix bugs. AI can ship features. What AI can't do is know which features to build, which designs feel right, which interactions spark joy. That's the value. The code is almost free. The taste is not.
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