You were always overconfident in week one. But it used to take months, if not years to properly fail. Now week one has a live product and domain to its name.
Every day now we can see a new post from the CEO of TrustMeBro Ltd, proclaiming AI just killed [insert job]. Because he did a bit of vibe coding.
Friday evening, down three beers: generate the spec with Claude.
Saturday: vibe-code the MVP, buy a domain, Midjourney the logo.
Sunday: deploy on Vercel, share with your buddies.
sound of heavenly choir
Monday: write a LinkedIn post about how you just became AI Jesus incarnate.
You haven't spoken to a single user. And that matters (more than you know, obviously).
Mistakes used to kick you in the butt. Half a year and half of your savings on the wrong product forces a reckoning. You sit down. Down another 3 beers, and MAYBE you ask why. An then you learn something real!
A weekend and twenty quid on API credits? You pivot. Same assumptions. New domain. Next weekend. AI Jesus rises again!
When failure is cheap, you don't stop to understand it. You just go again.
The wall is still there. But now when you hit it, instead of a broken nose and bruised ego, you just bounce.
So who pays?
Not you. You're already on the next idea.
The mother who downloaded the app, got confused, and quietly deleted it. She paid. With a bit of her time, a bit of trust in software that was supposed to help her, but actually doesn't solve the problem.
The confidence was always going to be there at the start. That part didn't change.
It's the feedback loop that's broken.
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