During the peak of mobile app madness, iOS and Android developers would often find themselves cornered by friends, relatives, and random people at parties. “I’ve got a great idea for an app…” More often than not, this dreaded sentence would be followed by a hard sell when the developer didn’t display adequate enthusiasm. If the developer didn’t act fast and feign the exact right level of approval — enough to communicate they ‘got’ the idea but not so much that they’d be asked to build it — the idea guy would advance onto hashing out NDAs, equity allocations, and asking when coding can start. Recently, I’ve noticed the AI era is a bit different. The balance of power has shifted. Builders need domain experts as much as domain experts need builders. You can no longer simply copy an app model with a few improvements or obsess over user feedback as you sharpen your prototype towards product-market fit. To build a differentiated AI product you need training data and examples curated by a…
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