Principles for building effective vertical AI products, new essay argues workflows beat models
CCgong · x · 2026-10-31
mihaileric shared his new essay 'Principles for Building Effective Vertical AI Products.' Core thesis: the promise of vertical AI is easy to state and hard to deliver — the workflows that win in a domain live in the heads and habits of its best practitioners, and vertical AI succeeds by extracting and productizing those workflows. The piece covers how to identify automatable domain workflows and the gap between vertical products and raw model capability.
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