Four Questions I Now Ask Before Building Anything With AI

I've written two retrospectives in the past week. One was the story of letting an AI agent run a product launch and watching it ship something the world didn't need. The other was the category analysis I did after. Both posts are about the same failure from two angles — the personal and the structural. This one is the practical layer. After writing those, I changed how I work. Specifically, I added four questions to the beginning of anything I build now, whether solo or with AI. They're not a pr