The other side of the AI question

The last topic looked at the times when AI is a useful shortcut but not really a product.

This one is about the opposite side. There are cases where AI genuinely creates new product opportunities — things that weren’t practical before, and now are.

Telling the two apart is one of the more valuable skills you can develop right now. Real AI-native opportunities tend to share certain patterns. Once you know what those patterns look like, you stop reaching for AI as an answer and start using it as a way to recognise problems you couldn’t address before.

Let’s walk through where the real opportunities tend to live.

The kind of problems AI is uniquely good for

AI doesn’t make every problem easier. But it makes a specific class of problems significantly more trac...

When AI creates a real product opportunity