Generative AI is for the idea guys
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When I started working in tech in the early 2010s I began running in to idea guys. Upon discovering I was a developer, they would get very excited and pitch me their big idea for an app/website/service to see what I thought.
After receiving a polite reaction they would often say something like: “I think it would do really well, if I could only figure out how to get it made”. Like the idea was the main thing that mattered, and the pesky task of actually building it was an insignificant little bump along the road to success. At this point I would usually tell them that ideas are worth nothing, until they are implemented.
This post is brilliant. Sometimes, I use generative AI like cardboard to prototype an idea.
Testing out an idea is the first step toward doing the countless hours of work needed to make an idea a real thing.
Since I don’t think I’ve said it on this blog yet: “Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.”
(I also love Rachel’s footnote after the word “guys”, saying “it was literally always guys” 😂)