The Blockers Don't Care That You're Using AI
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I wrote a post back in 2021 about walking skeletons — the idea that before you go deep on features, you ship something thin and deployable end-to-end. Not because it's useful to users, but because it flushes out the real blockers while the cost of finding them is still low. Permissions. Pipelines. Infrastructure assumptions that looked fine on a whiteboard.
That advice hasn't aged out. If anything, AI projects have made it more relevant, not less.