For thirteen years, my job ended at the handoff.
I designed the product. Somebody else built it. Then a specification, and months before anyone could see what survived the translation.
The design-to-build shift
That gap has mostly closed.
The judgment didn’t change. The distance between thinking and making did. I can try more directions before committing to one, put a working prototype in front of people in days, and build smaller products outright.
Deciding what is worth building is still the whole job.
Growing is easy. Pruning is the craft. These tools will build whatever you ask for, which makes asking for the right thing the entire game. Twenty years is what tells me which idea earns the effort and which quietly creates three new problems.
