Here's a sentence that has quietly become a lie: "I built an app."
You built something that runs on your screen. Maybe in a preview pane, maybe on localhost, maybe inside a chat window. It works. It's real to you. And for most of human software history, that was 90% of the battle — getting the thing to actually function.
That era is over. The functioning part is solved now. You describe what you want, an AI writes it, and it runs. The 90% collapsed to about four minutes.
But here's what nobody updated: the definition of "done" didn't move with it. And that gap is where I watch person after person celebrate a finish line that isn't one.
A preview is not a product
