AI has made a working demo radically cheaper.
That is useful. It is also dangerous, because a plausible interface can now create the feeling of progress long before there is evidence of a product.
At App Foundry, we treat generation as the easy part. The hard part is deciding what deserves to exist, turning evidence into a coherent product contract, and proving the live journey as a stranger would experience it.
A demo is not a product
A prototype can prove that familiar patterns fit together. It does not prove that people need the result.
