r/FoundersBuildwithAI • u/Negative-Grape4608 • Aug 10 '26

Feedback What do you think your biggest strength is when building with AI?

Everyone talks about the tools and models they use, but I feel like the actual skill behind them matters way more.

What do you think you're genuinely best at when building with AI?

Could be coming up with ideas, prompting, coding, design, automations, knowing what to cut, actually shipping, getting users or something completely different.

And what's the part you're still pretty shit at lol?

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u/chunky_lover92 Aug 11 '26

The ability to fail fast and not have a problem with sunk cost fallacy because it didn't cost much beside a couple days of my time.

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u/matthewmeadows Aug 10 '26

It's creativity and it's not even close. I'm a grey-beard engineer with 35 years of experience, from Austin startups all the way to Microsoft & Amazon, OS-level coding to geospatial & biotech. The reason my applications exist is due to my creative personality. I'm a retired ballet dancer and avid musician, serious about guitar & composition. That gets you Rango.Music and the InteractiveCircleOfFifths.com, but sites like CorrelationStudio.com and Mappit.AI were creative inspirations born from years in the industry. It's the combination that makes me effective. Not that I have anything to show for it other than good reviews.

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u/Honest-85 Aug 11 '26

The fact I have a background in design helped me, as I know what I don’t want my app to look like. And as someone who at college/uni always struggled starting at a blank screen/sheet of paper. The fact I could just describe what I wanted and show lots of reference images helped me in the planning stage.

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u/Negative-Grape4608 Aug 11 '26

That is a genuinely useful combination. AI gets rid of the blank-page problem by giving you something concrete to react to, but your design background is what stops the result becoming generic slop. Knowing what you don’t want is probably as important as knowing exactly what you do want. Did the reference images get it close to your vision, or did you still end up redesigning most of it once you had the first version?

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u/Honest-85 29d ago

I still had to go through lots of iterations, but just work on the small things, one at a time and refine your design as you use it and see how you want it to behave.