TLDR Founders · MISCELLANEOUS
AI'S "JUST SHIP IT." PROBLEM
Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter
Stanford studied 100,000 developers and found AI boosts simple tasks by 60% but complex work by only 5%, with most gains around 20% - plus AI-generated code increases rework. The punchline is that AI makes you throw spaghetti at the wall faster, but it doesn't make your wall bigger or help you validate whether the spaghetti stuck - and when 75% of product ideas fail anyway, shipping yourself out of business just got easier.