These two projects represent something more than side work. They are a deliberate attempt to understand what product design looks like when the execution barrier is removed.

SteadyState and Nomadist were built without engineering teams, without sprints, and without handoffs. Each one went from concept to live product in under three weeks. What made that possible was not only the AI; it was having twenty years of product design and UX experience to direct it. The AI generated the code. As the designer I decided what to build, why it mattered, and when the output wasn't good enough.

That distinction is the point. As AI compresses the distance between idea and product, the highest-leverage skill in any team is no longer the ability to execute; rather it is the judgment to know what is worth executing.