AI Killed the MVP. What's Next?
The author reflects on building Rotation List, an app created with AI assistance, marking a shift from Minimal Viable Products (MVP) to a 'Maximal Achievable Experience' (MAX) due to the ease and speed of AI-powered development. AI has drastically reduced the effort and time required to build full-featured software, making minimalism outdated. Code changes are now nearly effortless, transforming how software is designed and released. This new era of software abundance fundamentally alters expectations around development speed, quality, and capability.
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Where it started: me standing in front of a long aisle of dog food bags at Costco, racking my memory for which kind I was supposed to buy next for my finicky golden retriever, Kilo.How it ended: me building Rotation List, so nobody will ever have to forget again.It's the best app I've ever made, and the first I've created in partnership with AI. In the past, I subcontracted unimportant bits to AI. With Claude Code, I realized that was heirloom thinking in a genetically modified world.What Did I Learn?The era of the MVP is well and truly over. Minimal Viable Products were an artifact of an age of software scarcity.Design was hard. Code was hard. Change was hard. Testing was hard. That's out.What's in? MAX: Maximal Achievable Experience.
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