Kavita Ashodia

Kavita Ashodia

Your words can change the world.
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I am Kavita, the team behind 8080.ai. With over 10 years in AI and technology, I have spent my career turning complex ideas into products that actually work in the real world. 8080.ai comes from a frustration I have seen over and over. Great ideas that never make it to production because building software properly is too slow and too expensive. We built 8080.ai to change that. If you are building something today I would love to hear about it.

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  • 8080.AI
    8080.AIYour words can change the world.
    Feb 2026
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    Joined Product HuntFebruary 22nd, 2026

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1mo ago

Why AI coding tools will hit a wall unless they solve planning first

The current generation of AI coding tools is genuinely impressive. Give them a clear spec and they'll write production-quality code faster than most junior developers. That's real.

But here's what I keep seeing: the output is only as good as the input. And most teams are feeding these tools requirements that were vague to begin with.

Garbage in, garbage out just faster.

The real bottleneck was never how quickly code gets written. It was the clarity of what needs to be built before anyone starts writing. Requirements that drift. Architecture decisions made too late. Scope that wasn't defined tightly enough to survive contact with a sprint.

8080.AIp/8080•

1mo ago

Is the pre-build phase the most underrated problem in software development?

Everyone talks about how fast AI can write code now. Nobody talks about the three weeks before the first line of code is written.

Requirements gathering. Discovery calls. Proposal creation. Architecture planning. UI/UX design. Technical documentation. Scope estimation.

8080.AIp/8080•

1mo ago

Is the pre-build phase the most underrated problem in software development?

Everyone talks about how fast AI can write code now.

Nobody talks about the three weeks before the first line of code is written.

Requirements gathering. Discovery calls. Proposal creation. Architecture planning. UI/UX design. Technical documentation. Scope estimation.

All of it happens before anything is actually built. And all of it is largely repetitive work that senior people are overqualified to be doing manually.

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