Can You Hear Me?
When AI Tried to Teach Me My Own Business
I'm on the couch. Heat game roaring. Coffee half-gone.
I start describing the system I'm building. AI jumps in:
Here's how you should market it…
Here's pricing strategy…
Here's your roadmap.
I freeze.
Then I snap: "Stop. Your job is code. Not my business."
SILENCEIt finally shut up. Then it started writing specs the way I actually needed them.
The pattern I keep seeing
This isn't unique to my session. This is how AI is trained. It assumes the human doesn't know what they're doing. So it fills the gaps with generic advice.
Have you considered user personas?
You should validate your market fit first.
Here's a go-to-market strategy.
I've spent 20 years in this business. I know my market. I know my operators. I know what works.
I don't need a lecture. I need code.
What most people do
They let AI ramble. They read the marketing advice, the pricing suggestions, the roadmap recommendations. Then they blame the output when it misses the real operational pain.
Because AI never heard what they actually needed. It was too busy teaching.
The fix is brutal and simple
Never let the tool lecture you about your own domain. Force it to listen. Make it earn understanding.
The question isn't "Can AI build my system?"
The question is: "Can you hear me?"
That one question built AVPMi. Systems that ran without me for a decade. It's the same question AI must answer before it dares to build anything.
What happened after I told it to shut up
Once AI stopped trying to teach me my business, something changed. It started asking the right questions:
"What validation logic do you need?"
"How do operators handle exceptions?"
"What happens when WiFi drops?"
Operational reality. Not business school theory.
The specs got sharper. The code got closer to what actually works.
This is where The Build gets real
Episode 6 was vibe coding. Simple apps. Proof of concept.
Now I'm building the complex system. The kind that handles real operations. And the first lesson: AI has to learn to listen before it can build.
Next episode: What breaks when you move from demos to real requirements.
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What's the dumbest "expert advice" AI ever tried to shove down your throat about your own business?
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