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Mentors a recurring problem: ideas stall before beginning, so a team at CB builds an English-to-SQL prototype in two hours using GenAI to translate plain English to SQL and run it against their warehouse, shipping a rough UI and "godawful" code that works. The result cuts time-to-insight from hours or days to seconds, sparks weekend iteration, and leads to continuous deployment patterns (100+ deploys in days). The concrete claim: start fast, learn fast, measure by changed metrics not polished architecture.
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- 0:00The gap between idea and start
- 3:42Perfectionism and the ego
- 7:18Demo in two hours story
- 10:50Mindset shift in software
- 13:47Goal and feedback loop
- 14:28Call to action and closing
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