There is a pattern that shows up repeatedly among founders who have built apps the traditional way. They go through the process once - the agency search, the discovery sessions, the long build cycle, the budget overruns - and by the time they finally have a product in hand, they swear they will never do it that way again. The product may have turned out fine. The process was exhausting, expensive, and slower than anyone originally promised. And the worst part is that most of it was avoidable. The shift happening right now in how startups build their products is not about chasing the latest trend. It is about founders making a rational decision after comparing what the old process cost them against what a better process could have delivered. When that comparison is honest, the case for AI-powered development platforms becomes difficult to argue against.…