Comment by TeMPOraL
13 hours ago
> My impression has always been it's more important the build the correct thing (what the customer needs/wants) rather than more stuff faster.
The process of learning what the customer needs/wants is a heavily iterative one, often involving throwing prototypes at them or betting at a solution, then course-correcting based on their reaction. Similarly, the process of building the correct thing is almost always an iterative approximation - correctness is something you discover and arrive at after research and prototypes and trying and getting it wrong.
All of that benefits from any of its steps being done faster - but it's up to the org/team whether they translate this speedup to quality or velocity. For example, if AI lets you knock out prototypes and hypothesis-testing scripts much faster, you can choose whether to finish earlier (and start work on next thing sooner), or do more thorough research, test more hypothesis, and finish as normally, but with better result.
(Well, at least theoretically. If you're under competitive pressure, the usual market dynamics will take the choice away, but that's another topic.)
no customers will accept "throwing prototypes at them". my time is not for QA-ing your product.
why do you think restaurants rarely change their menus.
You have a specific idea of customer in mind. Likely different than the gp’s. Many types of customers are quite happy to have prototypes thrown at them. Sometimes it’s even contractually required in agency work.
Is it just me or is this whole mania exposing those people who thought they were great ‘thinkers’? The takes I see are so utterly flawed it’s ironic - people refer to llm’s as hallucinating when the real halluncinations are from people cosplaying the role of management/investors when they have never done said role professionally in their life.