Скачать или смотреть AA229 - Build First: The Dumbest Take of 2025?

Join Product Manager Brian and Enterprise Consultant Om as they peel back the sticky veneer from the "Build First" trend sweeping through product development.

Listen or watch as we debate the message being projected by AI tool vendors (who all have their own flavor of tool to sell you) and ask - "are we encouraging teams to skip crucial validation" in favor of rapid prototyping?

Stick around for our discussion, which includes:
How "Build First" creates organizational dependencies on AI vendors
The death of institutional knowledge and strategic thinking
Effects of skipping user research and stakeholder conversations
The token economy trap and hidden costs of AI-driven development
Practical ways to leverage AI tools without falling into these traps

Whether you're a product manager, developer, or leader navigating the AI hype cycle, this episode offers balanced insights on how to use AI tools responsibly while still building products people actually want.

LINKS
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/362QvYO...
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast...

TIMECODES
0:00 Intro: The Great AI Token Money Grab of 2025
0:39 Build It And They Will Come
1:48 Build First Culture: Bypassing User Research
2:49 Speed vs. Perfection in a Competitive Market
3:55 Lots of Prototypes
5:28 Ignoring Users
6:42 Solving the Wrong Problems
10:47 Scoring Point 1
11:16 The Token Economy Trap
13:43 More is ALWAYS Better
15:25 Vendor Lock
16:12 Code Token Iteration
17:23 Quantifying Token Effectiveness
19:30 Comparing Metrics
20:23 Scoring Round 2
21:15 Validation Shortcut Disaster
23:26 Supporting Your Product
24:45 Revenue First
26:39 Regulatory & Marketing Considerations
28:30 Lack of Vibed Nuance
29:37 The Importance of Budget Checkpoints
33:34 Scoring Point 3
34:13 AI as a Productivity Multiplier
36:15 AI Agent Infrastructure
38:58 So What Next?
39:59 The Death of Institutional Learning
44:35 Experimentation Cost is Low
46:17 Vibing Systems & Strategy
48:53 Explaining AI
50:43 Point Four-ish Scoring
51:23 Talking to People - It's Not Going Away
53:08 Brian's Takeaway
55:46 The Build-First Casino
57:02 Wrap-Up

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product management, agile development, AI tools, build first, user research, token economy, product strategy, tech leadership, AI in product development, product validation

INTRO MUSIC
Toronto Is My Beat
By Whitewolf (Source: https://ccmixter.org/files/whitewolf2...)
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