Transition Guide
You can frame the bet. Now prove you can turn it into a working slice with evidence.
Why: A builder can test judgment before asking a team to spend weeks on it.
Practice: Ship a tiny workflow: input, output, empty state, and one event. Do it yourself first.
Suggested resources: Builder Scope Review, GitHub Spec Kit, Shape Up
Why: AI makes weak ideas look finished. You need tests that expose whether the thing actually works.
Practice: Write acceptance criteria, one eval, and one user-facing failure mode before shipping.
Suggested resources: LLM Evaluation Skill, Best Practices for LLM Evaluation, promptfoo
Phase 1 · Weeks 1-4
Pick one recurring customer pain. Write the spec, build the smallest working flow, and show it to five users.
Phase 2 · Weeks 5-8
Add events, define the success metric, collect user notes, and write the kill condition.
Phase 3 · Weeks 9-12
Run two changes tied to activation, retention, paid intent, or support load. Write what changed.
