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Why days, not weeks
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Why days, not weeks
Speed isn't about looking productive. A thin slice running on the customer's own code does two things a polished v2 can't: it surfaces the wrong assumptions early and it earns the trust that buys you room for the hard parts.
- 1Pick one real case. Not a toy - the simplest actual instance from their repo. One file, one PR, one incident.
- 2Wire the whole path. Input, the model call, verification, output back where they'd consume it. Stub anything deep.
- 3Run it in front of them. Live, on their code, in their editor or CI. Let them see it work and fail.
- 4Thicken the riskiest stage next. Use what broke to decide where depth goes first.