Scaling pain arrives earlier when AI writes the code
Product Market FitProduct Scale FitAgentic EngineeringProduct-Scale Fit in AI-landTal Rotbart8 min read·3 days ago--ListenSharePress enter or click to view image in full sizeProduct-market fit has a successor, and almost nobody names it. I’ll call it product-scale fit: the point where a product’s engineering matches the volume and variety of its real-world usage. Every durable company has had to cross the gap between the two fits, usually a few years after traction arrived, and usually with some pain.
- ▪Product Market FitProduct Scale FitAgentic EngineeringProduct-Scale Fit in AI-landTal Rotbart8 min read·3 days ago--ListenSharePress enter or click to view image in full sizeProduct-market fit has a successor, and almost nobody names it.
- ▪I’ll call it product-scale fit: the point where a product’s engineering matches the volume and variety of its real-world usage.
- ▪Every durable company has had to cross the gap between the two fits, usually a few years after traction arrived, and usually with some pain.
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Product Market FitProduct Scale FitAgentic EngineeringProduct-Scale Fit in AI-landTal Rotbart8 min read·3 days ago--ListenSharePress enter or click to view image in full sizeProduct-market fit has a successor, and almost nobody names it. I’ll call it product-scale fit: the point where a product’s engineering matches the volume and variety of its real-world usage. Every durable company has had to cross the gap between the two fits, usually a few years after traction arrived, and usually with some pain. The pattern is so consistent that we should stop treating it as a failure and start treating it as a stage. What’s changing now is the timing.
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