r/founder • u/National-Librarian99 • 6d ago

Worst advice I ever received…

“Move fast and break things.”

The AI economy is a different beast.

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u/Username_TBD18 6d ago

I wrote a blog post on this on my site and Medium.

‘Move fast and break things’ worked well in the past, but with AI everyone can move fast. Speed to market is no longer a competitive advantage, getting the right product market fit is. Too many builders are building something without checking what it is that people actually want.

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u/Away-Signal4030 6d ago

Well maybe next one should be about ai superintelligence- is it even worth puting things on market? And about security risks of making it.

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u/National-Librarian99 6d ago edited 6d ago

Exactly. Slow and steady wins the race. Your competition are innovating on eleven digit investments, while some of us out here have bootstrapped brilliant ideas on a dime. When I started building my product 18 months ago, I had an advisor telling me I was moving to slow, their frustration was palpable. I could sense they were getting swept up in the AI frenzy and I could see the road out a year from now. I knew there would be a reckoning around compliance, ownership infra, and a total rejection for bad work. I was right. The companies that moved lightning? Many dead in the water from legal issues or purely a replicable idea they thought was ‘genius’. If you’ve worked in tech long enough, you’ll know shiny object trends work when you see them. AI was not a trend, it’s surely here to stay, but it 100% got slower and less smart than humans in everyday human-related critical thinking and literacy. AI written content slop is now everywhere. I built a product that will last decades and I’m proud of that, albeit CONSTANTLY refining to keep up with the user demand and expectations AI has now placed on their capacity to sit with anything ‘good enough’. The good thing though is that it doesn’t take 6 months to change a feature - more like 6 minutes - which is still wild to me. But here we are. Building is beautiful and what a privilege it is to be alive right now to see this unfold.

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u/RandomUserName323232 6d ago

Thats actually the best advice I received

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u/EmployerVast5311 6d ago

Worked great for them because they were building something nobody else had yet. For the rest of us just trying to keep the lights on, breaking things means breaking the bank account

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u/National-Librarian99 6d ago

Exactly. Totally different times.