AI let her build 3 apps in 2 weeks, but the real work moved to scaffolding
donasarkar · x · 2026-07-22
A keynote about what humans should do when agents can do much of the work they used to do:
- The speaker says she built three apps for her own problems in the last two weeks, almost entirely with AI.
- The hard part was no longer shipping the code; it was deciding on the surrounding infrastructure: hosting costs, cloud storage, authentication, privacy, and other tradeoffs that can quietly become expensive.
- She also highlights product decisions that still need human judgment, such as voice input, accessibility, flow, usefulness, and whether anyone will actually use the app.
- Her takeaway is that the builder journey is still early: AI lowers the barrier to building, but value comes from solving the scaffolding and experience problems well.
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