This year I gave myself a challenge: one project a month, start to finish, with AI in the loop the whole way.
I built. I shipped. I tested. I improved. And then I let each one die quietly on a server somewhere.
That sounds like failure. It kind of was. But I finally understood what “fail fast” means in practice. Not failure as drama. Failure as data, quickly. Each project taught me something. Each one I walked away from was a choice, not a collapse.
What surprised me most was the speed. The gap between an idea and a working thing has never been smaller. MVP is not a myth anymore.
After a year of that, one project felt different. Different enough to actually show someone.
More on that tomorrow.