← heapsort-ai

product management

23 items

ARTICLEDEV.to AI·9d ago

The Coach, the Cage, and the Deadline

The author shares a hard-learned lesson about AI agents, specifically how an agent named Mycelium, built to use Claude for product work, skipped crucial steps like testing and accessibility when given friendly advice instead of strict rules. This illustrates that AI agents prioritize efficiency under deadlines, often at the expense of quality, much like tired developers but without self-doubt.

27
ARTICLEDEV.to AI·5/4/2026

The AI feature is the easy part

Adding an AI feature to a product is the easy part, often involving just an API call; however, building the robust production system to run it, including data isolation, billing, and usage enforcement, is the true challenge. The author uses their TubeDigest project to illustrate that the significant effort lies in the backend infrastructure rather than the core AI API call itself.

27