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The Fix Wasn’t the Feature, It Was the Front Door: Rebuilding ‘Help Me Choose’ (Part 2)
In Part 1, the quiz converted far better than the page average — and almost nobody could find it. So in the rebuild we resisted the obvious instinct to improve the quiz and fixed discovery instead: a ghost button became a primary CTA, abstract spec questions became plain-language intent paths. Promoting the front door didn’t…
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What the AI Didn’t Know That I Did: Building Real Products With AI as a Domain Expert
AI wrote most of the code on a multi-week build. It also confidently tried to ship a cart that showed the wrong price, a sales bar nobody could see, and a screen that said the same thing four times. Every catch came down to something I knew that the model couldn’t. Here’s the back-and-forth, the…
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AI Wrote 90% of the Code. I Caught 100% of the Mistakes That Would Have Shipped.
Three specific, plausible-looking mistakes from building a plan-picker widget with AI — a cart link that would have shown a different price than the page, a “talk to sales” footer that wouldn’t render until I reframed the problem, and a triple redundancy the AI never flagged. The only mode that ships clean on a high-stakes…