The counterintuitive AI take: stop building more, start perfecting one thing
DanielLockyer · x · 2026-10-30
zenorocha argues most people use AI to build more — more features, pages, stuff — but the bigger unlock is using it to make one thing really good: speed up your slowest endpoint, make CI faster for the whole team, fix the bug everyone stopped noticing. DanielLockyer endorses it with "graph goes down."
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