# AI builds your bad ideas faster

Published 24 February 2026

[Originally posted on LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7432043122894761984/)

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**AI doesn't argue with your bad ideas**. Whether you're a startup founder, a product owner, or anyone pushing something to market — **it just builds your bad ideas faster**. 🤷

AI is great at executing what you describe, but it won't question whether you described something useful.

You say "build this feature" — it builds.

**AI isn't designed to define what to deliver — that's on us**.

❗**The missing piece is feedback**. This is the chronic pain of anyone trying to push a product to market — we don't set up that feedback loop from the first steps, so we're flying blind, not knowing if our actions lead to the result we need.

I remember one of my clients: ReSelf. We spent a year and a half building a mobile app for people struggling with weight, gamified healthy eating. They spent $200K back in 2015, worth significantly more in today's dollars. Then shut it down within 2 months after release. A year later, another app launches with the same core idea, slightly different execution — and takes off to millions of users.

Only after I started my own startup I got what the problem was. They organized that feedback loop, adjusting features based on real data instead of guessing.

So what does AI change here? It doesn't fix this problem. It just lets you do more of the same nonsense, faster. Instead of one unnecessary app for $200K, you can now build three. 🚀

The cycle should be: ship → observe → analyse → change requirements → regenerate. When iteration is cheap, you can afford to be wrong faster — but only if you're actually measuring whether you're wrong.

Have you ever built something perfectly — that nobody needed? 👇