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AI Doesn't Replace Engineering Fundamentals—It Requires Them
Why the teams shipping production AI fastest are the ones obsessed with the basics Everyone's talking about AI. Not everyone's getting value. We've seen the pattern repeat: impressive demos that never reach production. Innovation theater that checks a board-mandated AI box. Black box systems that teams can't debug six months later. Unoptimized LLM calls burning $10K+/month without delivering proportional business value. The challenge isn't building with AI—it's knowing how to
Suzanna Capone
May 208 min read
Focus Factor and Productivity Theater
In the time it took to read this sentence, AI just helped someone generate a 15-page requirements document, three user story templates,...
Suzanna Capone
Aug 20, 20254 min read
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