Things I've Learned About AI as an Indie Dev
5 min readBuilding AI prototypes as an indie developer taught me three non-obvious lessons that challenge what I thought I knew about working with LLMs.
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Building AI prototypes as an indie developer taught me three non-obvious lessons that challenge what I thought I knew about working with LLMs.
Ten people sit in a conference room for an hour. Six team leads take turns reading slides, which rehash status already in JIRA. No decisions get made. Everyone leaves the meeting to do actual work. This happens every month. If asked, none of the attendees could name a single benefit of the meeting. It costs your company $24,000 a year.
Does this sound familiar to you?