Building SaaS with AI Agents Without Losing Your Mind

AI tools are great. Using them without letting them think for you — that's the hard part.

AI agents are useful the same way power tools are useful. They let you make a bigger mistake faster if you're lazy. The trick is staying the author. Let the machine speed up drafting, not thinking.

I use agents for scaffolding, repetition, and forcing hidden assumptions into the open. I don't outsource judgment, product sense, or the boring work of deciding what should exist in the first place.

That's the part nobody can automate yet. Inconvenient. But healthy.