Move fast and make things

I’d like to replace “move fast and break things” with “move fast and make things”. Keep the ambition, but take a bit more responsibility for the result. Facebook’s old motto always left something unresolved for me: who has to live with the things you break? There’s a fairly big difference between breaking your own prototype and breaking something another person relies on. With AI helping us build more quickly, I think that question needs a bit more attention. There’s a lot to be excited about when you can take an idea and get something working whilst you’re still enthusiastic about it. You can explore an interaction, build a tool for an annoying task, or try something that previously required more time than you could justify. More people get to make things, and more ideas get a chance to become useful. And it’s quite easy to get further into the build than your understanding has caught up with. An interface can look finished whilst the behaviour underneath it is full of assumptions…