A week ahead

In AI developer tools, we now count any advantage in “weeks ahead”. If we get a feature out a week ahead of the zeitgeist discovering it, that’s a win. The week is where all the capital comes from. The week where you broke out the new flow, pushed the new approach no one had seen yet, that’s all you can do now.

We’re all at the cutting edge because keeping up is almost free. So when you get something a week before the others, it just means you had the flexibility built into your system to ship faster than the other people with the same idea.

Don’t be upset that everything you think of immediately gets cloned by everyone else. Instead, ship your idea fast, then sometimes you’ll get your idea out first.

That’s the best you can do right now. All optionality, all nearby potential that has seen the light of day, is realized within about a week. Only unexpectedly hard or very secret ideas from original research can buck this reality. For most things, you can only just barely ship something first, by about a week, and that’s good.