AI Product Thinking: When AI Is the Wrong Tool

Engineering teams that reach for AI as a default ship features that under-perform, cost more than alternatives, and damage the team's credibility on AI overall. Senior engineers who can frame the AI-vs-not decision in product language — soft vs hard success criteria, failure cost vs verification cost, volume amortization — earn the seat at the product table where these decisions actually get made. The decision is rarely "ship a worse AI feature"; the decision is "ship a deterministic feature tod

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