Engineering Leadership•Jul 20, 2025•English
- "Don't ask users what they want. Build a product that sets direction."
- "The best AI products don't feel mechanical. They feel magical."
Step-by-step strategy
- Build opinionated products: don't ask users what they want, set a direction.
- Deliver magical experiences: not mechanical, but surprising.
- Tool -> copilot -> autopilot: raise the level of automation gradually.
- 95% is company-building: focus on team, execution, and product.
- The AI-specific 5% matters at scale: data flywheels, trust, and UX.
- Build a data flywheel: user behavior makes the model smarter.
- Focus on real revenue: not vanity, but actual adoption, retention, and behavior change.
- Don't fear low early margins: token costs keep falling, scale is the answer.
