My 2-Week Rule for AI Projects: Less Talk, More Prototypes
Stop the analysis paralysis in AI. Find out why a functional prototype in two weeks is worth more than a thousand scope meetings.
I have a number-one rule for any Artificial Intelligence project, and it's very simple: if we can't build something functional in 2 weeks, the plan is too complicated.
Yep, simple as that. It's my no-BS filter.
Does this movie sound familiar? Weeks of meetings. Planning committees (that don't plan anything). Endless email threads trying to define the "perfect scope." Everyone has an opinion, everyone wants to add "that one little thing." It's the slow path. The path of bureaucracy.
Analysis Paralysis: The Project Graveyard
The result of that merry-go-round is predictable: analysis paralysis.
You end up with 50-page documents no one reads. With projects that look great on paper, a revolution... but die before they're born. They fizzle out before they even start because all the energy was spent on "planning" and none on "doing."
My Manifesto: Let's Cut to the Chase
That's why I propose a manifesto, something radical that pisses off more than one manager: Fewer meetings, more prototypes.
Let's stop talking so much about the future and start building it. Today. Enough "chatting" about AI, let's start using it.
For this to work, I stand on two fundamental principles:
Principle #1: The Power of the MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
The key here is to get the idea out of your head that you have to "solve EVERYTHING" at once. No. The goal is to solve ONE problem. Just one, but solve it quickly and measurably.
A small, tangible win—something a user can touch and say, "hey, this saves me work"—is worth a thousand times more than a big abstract promise in a PowerPoint.
Principle #2: Learning by Doing (not by reading)
A functional prototype, even if it's held together with duct tape and missing a thousand features, teaches you 100 times more than any theory or "research" document.
It gives you real feedback, not assumptions from a committee. You collide with reality head-on and see if what you thought made sense or was just talk.
The Real Engine of Change: The "Eureka Moment"
And here's the magic, the real catalyst to make things work. I call it the "Eureka Moment."
It's seeing the look on an employee's face when a task that used to take 3 hours of their life now takes 30 seconds, thanks to what you built.
That "Oh, wow!"... that "Eureka Moment" is contagious. It's a thousand times more powerful than any motivational speech.
That moment breaks down all skepticism. It transforms resistance to change into a desire to innovate. And best of all: the innovation starts coming from the teams themselves, not from a boss imposing it from above.
So now you know. Next time they try to pull you into an AI project that starts with 6 months of "definition," propose the 2-week rule.
Less talk. More prototypes.