Sanath bhat

This all goes back a bit to the era of NFT, virtual reality, when, during COVID, we went to virtual events, had VR glasses and promised ourselves that we would spend more time in some digital parallel reality online.

Well. So Facebook, with a growing portfolio and a new vision, renamed itself Meta.

That it would be the Metaverse.

In a discussion forum with @monatruong_murror , we talked about how AI can help us learn things that aren t naturally familiar to us, like programming.

The biggest challenge was/is:
Getting AI to guide you toward a solution, instead of just giving you the answer.

The builder internet has one dominant religion: ship fast, learn fast, iterate. And honestly? It's mostly right. I'm not here to argue against iteration.

But I've been noticing a pattern in products that actually lasted and it's uncomfortable: A lot of them were embarrassingly slow at the start. Not because the founders were lazy but because they were obsessive about the wrong thing to ship first.

Figma spent years just making the multiplayer cursor work flawlessly before talking about anything else. Notion had a tiny, nearly unusable v1 that they kept showing the same 500 people. Linear said no to mobile for two years while everyone said they were crazy.