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AI can get you to a demo in an afternoon. Getting to a product people pay for still takes taste, distribution, and boring operational work.
The one-hour MVP is real. It's also a trap if you confuse speed-to-demo with speed-to-business.
What still doesn't compress
Taste, distribution, support, and the dull operational loops still decide whether anyone stays. Agents compress the first mile. They don't erase the rest of the map.