AI and vibe coding lets you get that rough prototype up and running so much faster than before, and so creates that illusion of momentum and completeness more than ever.
How many people here have been subjected to that "looks good, put it in production!" directive after showing off a quick POC for something? And then you have to explain how far away from being production-ready things are, etc...
There's a reason wireframing tools intentionally use messy lines, and why most UX people know better than to put brand colours in wireframes.
Prototypes are very dangerous. Our team made the mistake of having our demo look very nice even though there is still a lot of unseen work to do. Now upper management of course think “this is ready, just send it out”. Prototypes live forever, no upper manager will want you to spend time on the real thing. It is unsafe for the project to come across well
How many people here have been subjected to that "looks good, put it in production!" directive after showing off a quick POC for something? And then you have to explain how far away from being production-ready things are, etc...
There's a reason wireframing tools intentionally use messy lines, and why most UX people know better than to put brand colours in wireframes.