The AI-native test: would it survive the lights going out?
There's a simple way to tell a real AI product from a press release: take the intelligence away. If what's left still works, the AI was decoration.
We only build the other kind — products where intelligence isn't a feature bolted to the side, but the reason the thing exists at all. Remove it and the lights go out.
This rules out most of what's shipping right now. A chat box stapled to old software isn't a new product; it's an old product wearing this year's coat.
The frontier we care about is narrower and harder: tools that couldn't have existed a year ago, that feel less like software and more like a quiet expert sitting beside you.
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