Do not index
Do not index
When Facebook shouted “move fast and break things,” it felt like a secret weapon. Being fast required rare ingredients: a talented team, deep pockets, and the capital to survive the inevitable failures. Speed was a scarce, high‑value asset that only a few could wield.
Today AI turns speed into a commodity.
- An AI assistant can spin up a blog post in the time it used to take to draft an outline.
- AI agents can post thousands of LinkedIn comments to farm engagement with a single workflow.
- Vibe-coding tools let you clone and publish the core functionality of any app idea in the time it takes to discuss it.
This isn’t meant to be anti-AI; I use AI heavily in every part of my business. Yet articles warning that ChatGPT rots your brain and headlines about Deloitte’s error-laden AI report are clear red flags. I want to use AI thoughtfully so that it increases output without sacrificing quality.
And it's a tension. As the owner of a solo enterprise, I perpetually have more work than time. Sending a half‑baked prompt to an AI seems like a productivity gain, yet it still forces me to sit beside the tool, edit its output, and often results in not very thoughtful outputs.
True leverage isn’t just “a little faster”. It’s a non‑linear system that produces more results than the effort I invest. The real payoff comes from spending the effort upfront to thoughtfully construct a workflow.
With the marginal cost of executing a task approaching zero. AI gives us a paradoxical gift: the space to slow down and be more intentional.
Across processes, this means taking the time to
- Define standards
- Identify the good inputs required for quality work
- Articulate the step‑by‑step process for producing the work
- Encode that process in a system that can run autonomously
- Create benchmarks and frameworks to continuously evaluate quality
All of that meta‑work is slower at first. It can feel like it gets in the way of actually completing the task. But, it makes you a better architect. The advantage lies not in how many tasks you can personally finish per hour, but in the leverage you embed in the systems that run for you. If speed was once the secret weapon, today the secret weapon is systemic speed. The ability to let AI sprint while we focus on the deeper processes and guidelines that sustains it.
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