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today's fun ai coding tricking - when doing the high-level part of your plan, do an amazon-style "working backwards" approach - write the customer-facing blog post about the feature BEFORE you start building this can surface so many edge cases and help you dial in on prioritizin…↗

AI is compressing how we build. Roles collapse, roadmaps expire quickly, and you end up rewriting the product every few months. So we thought we’d give people a behind-the-scenes look. 21 Days to Launch, a Replit documentary.↗

Duolingo just launched a full chess course. It wasn’t built by a huge team or chess experts. It started with a PM, a designer, and Cursor, an AI coding assistant. No engineers. No dev team. Here’s how they built and shipped the course in 8 months using AI. 🧵👇↗

·@shweta_ai·Jun 18, 2025·essay·ai·chess·cursor·duolingo

Or it could be like when Google was going to kill everything then didn't. There were 100 AI note-takers before Granola, there will be 100 after. The 80% use case is super easy to assign a pod 3 months to ship a pretty good product. But doing something truly great on a product t…↗

·@nabeel·Jun 5, 2025·essay·ai·google·note-taking·openai

"it takes us three months to build all the AI stuff and it might take Mailchimp 30 months. The question is, is 27 months enough for me and you to go and build every other feature in Mailchimp to the same standard. And if it's not, then we're goosed, we don't really have a play"↗