AI lets you move at 240 km/h

AI lets you move at 240 km/h. That’s both a gift and a trap.

I’ve been going deep with AI lately, and one thing is already clear:
The speed is intoxicating.

It’s incredibly tempting to keep pushing, after it’s “just one more prompt,” just one more capability, just one more abstraction - because now you can.

Most product failures in the AI era won’t come from lack of speed. They’ll come from ignoring the speed limits, and rushing to the finish line only to realize:

The system is fragile, the product is incoherent, and the team can’t reason about what was built and why.

The hidden cost is not only technical debt. It is judgment debt.

Every extra prompt creates something that now needs to be evaluated. Every generated component needs someone to ask whether it fits the system. Every new workflow needs a person to check whether it makes the product clearer or just more impressive in a demo. AI reduces the cost of producing options, but it does not remove the cost of deciding which option deserves to exist.

That is where speed becomes dangerous.

At 240 km/h, a small steering mistake becomes a major incident. In product terms, a loose assumption becomes a shipped feature, a temporary workaround becomes architecture, and a half-understood decision gets copied across the system before anyone stops to inspect it.

The team feels productive until it has to explain the thing it built.

The real challenge now is not acceleration. It is restraint.

It’s knowing when to brake, when to coast, and when not to rev the engine.

In an AI-driven world, I suppose the motto really is:

“Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.”