AI is changing everything — but are we building the wrong things? 🧵

Every product team and founder is wrestling with the massive shifts brought on by generative AI right now. It’s completely reshaping our roadmaps, our tech stacks, and how we spend our daily hours.

But as the initial hype cycle transitions into real-world application, a deeper shift is happening in how AI impacts society and our daily workflows.

I’ve been tracking this closely, and it feels like the changes boil down to three major pillars:

The Compression of Time: Workflows that used to cause severe administrative burnout — summarizing hours of meetings, drafting collateral, or building initial landing page flows — now take seconds. Time saved here is essentially "life extension" for small teams and solo founders.

The Blur of Roles: The boundaries between design, engineering, and product are vanishing. With AI assisting the build process, the technical barrier to entry has plummeted. It's becoming entirely possible for non-technical founders or PMs to push functional code to production in less than 24 hours.

The "Discovery" Trap: Because the technology makes it ridiculously easy to build anything, a lot of makers are skipping the most fundamental rule of product: Discovery. We are seeing a flood of identical tools because people are asking "What can we build with AI?" instead of "What painful problem actually needs a solution?"

The hardest problem in product right now is no longer the execution of building—it's deciding what is actually worth building to bring real value to people's lives.

Let's talk:

Makers: How has AI changed your actual roadmap or building speed this year? Are you shipping faster, or just sorting through more noise?

As Consumers: What is one area of your daily routine where an AI application genuinely "bought back your time," rather than just being a cool novelty?

Drop your thoughts below. Let’s look past the hype and talk about the actual day-to-day reality. 👇