The ground keeps moving

If your product depends on AI, you’re building on a moving floor.

Models get better, sometimes dramatically, every few months. Prices drop. Providers change terms. New capabilities arrive that didn’t exist a year ago. Tools you rely on get acquired, deprecated, repriced, or quietly worse.

This isn’t a temporary phase. It’s the texture of the AI era. Founders who design as if today’s tools will still be the right ones in two years are setting themselves up for painful rebuilds. Those who design for change handle the shifts more gracefully — and sometimes turn them into opportunities.

Designing for flexibility doesn’t mean refusing to commit. It means committing in a way that doesn’t lock you into any single piece of the underlying stack.

What “flexibility” actually m...

Designing for flexibility (AI models and tools will change)