Philosophy of Prototyping

Shut up and build.

Prototyping is not engineering in the traditional sense.

Don’t sit around discussing frameworks or what language to use.

If it’s software it’s a perfect fit for an LLM. Don’t break it into agile stories, just tell it to make you 3 or 4 versions of what you want. Pick which one ends up the best fit and hone in on the feature you’re trying to demo.

Don’t polish the UI. The goal is getting to yes or no. Too much polish and people:

1) won’t give honest feedback
2) if they like it will think it’s production ready

Both of these outcomes are undesirable. It happens stay scrappy.

For hardware and demos stay away from anything wireless. When you’re giving a demo to the lead stakeholder it will fail. Murphy comes into play. Usually when there’s a large group of people their phones and noise to a space. So it works during testing. Don’t risk it.

Just shut up and build….