Two years ago, automating a single ETL flow took me weeks. This week I built a full internal tool in five days. The real shift isn't better AI tools — it's the collapse of the cost of problem-solving, and what that does to the SaaS math.
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Buying a generalist chatbot raises the floor of competence. It doesn't build your edge. True value comes from bespoke systems that understand your specific business logic and data.
AI has two modes: Cognitive and Operational. Work slop comes from treating everything like Cognitive Mode. The fix is knowing when to constrain AI to data-backed execution.
The hardest part of building in the age of AI isn't figuring out what's possible. It's deciding what gets built first when the barriers to solutions have collapsed.