I built an AI slide-deck generator on top of Velobase Harness — type a topic, get a presentation. The AI had a demo running almost immediately: it wrote an outline, generated the slides, exported a file. On screen, it looked finished.
Here's it running:
It wasn't. All it had proven was that one user could make one deck one time.
A real product is a different animal. It has to handle a hundred people generating at once, bill each of them correctly, recover when a step dies halfway, review its own output and redraw the bad parts, and export a PPTX that actually opens in PowerPoint. None of that showed up in the demo — and the AI didn't think to add it, because I hadn't told it to.
That turned out to be the whole lesson of the project: when you build with AI, the hard part isn't describing the feature. It's defining what "done" means.
