What is it for?

Thanks to AI, building a prototype for an application today is faster and easier than ever. The strategy for launching a product has been “validate before building the solution”. Today building costs have collapsed and you can build a prototype in a short time and use it to help validate the idea. But this surfaces another problem. When building was expensive, you couldn’t afford skipping the problem definition work. Now that the friction is gone, the temptation is to skip thinking about the problem we are trying to solve… and end with an answer to a question nobody asked, or building things nobody wants, faster than ever. The fundamental questions remain: Who is it for? What is it for? You can reply to this post by email.