I’ve been building apps traditionally for years and spent the last year heavily using AI tools to speed things up. One thing that’s become really obvious is most people are treating ChatGPT/Claude/Cursor like a magic wand instead of like collaborators that still need direction. You can build UI fast now. You can scaffold features fast. You can debug faster than ever. But most AI-built SaaS apps still end up feeling messy as hell because nobody spends time thinking through: what the actual MVP is what should NOT be built what makes the product different whether the feature set even makes sense together So people end up in this cycle where the app technically “works” but every new feature breaks something else because the project has no structure underneath it. The coding barely even feels like the bottleneck anymore. Product clarity is. The biggest improvement I’ve had recently was spending way more time on product direction, feature scope, and structured build planning before touching prompts.…