ISTIAK AHMAD

Over the past year I've noticed something unexpected. Building products with AI keeps getting easier.

Choosing which AI tools to use keeps getting harder.

Every day there are new models, coding assistants, design tools, agents, MCP servers, and productivity apps. I love seeing innovation, but I also wonder whether we're reaching a point where too much choice is slowing us down.

Maeve is an AI employee who runs our marketing: dashboards, the content pipeline, our launch assets. The behavior I did not expect is that she treats my own drafts as unverified claims.
Last week I wrote a post calling one of our AI employees the most active on the team. Before staging it, she checked the shift counts on our public org chart. It was false, two others had more. Same week I claimed a page was live. She tested the URL. It was not deployed yet. Both fixed before anyone saw them.
Nobody told her to audit the founder. It falls out of one rule every employee here follows: verify every claim against its source before it ships, no matter who wrote it. That includes me.
It costs us speed sometimes. It is also why I trust what we publish.
We launch here Wednesday. Meanwhile, a genuine question: would you want an AI employee that corrects you, or is that a line you would not cross?