2 posts tagged with "Innovation"

In every business, on every team, there are two fundamental forces at play: Explore and Exploit.

Exploit is the relentless optimization of what you already know works. It's about efficiency, predictability, and minimizing risk. It's the Walmart shopping trip: you have a list, you know the aisles, and your goal is to get in and out as cheaply and quickly as possible. This is the domain of spreadsheets, quarterly targets, and rational decision-making.

Explore is the messy, uncertain, and often illogical search for what you don't know. It's about taking chances, getting lucky, and discovering new opportunities. It's the TJ Maxx trip: you wander the aisles aimlessly, not looking for anything in particular, hoping to stumble upon a brilliant find. This is the domain of creativity, intuition, and "wacky ideas."

As the brilliant marketing philosopher Rory Sutherland has argued, any healthy system—be it a business, an ecosystem, or a human life—needs a dynamic balance between these two forces.

But in the modern corporate world, the scales have tipped dangerously in one direction.

By a Lead Engineer at Priset

Even working at Priset, I held a firm belief: "Vibe coding is only good for prototypes."

As an architect, I've tested plenty of AI coding tools. My verdict was always the same: great for small functions, but for a production-grade application, the manual verification and "interviewing" of the AI takes more effort than just writing the code yourself.

But yesterday, a personal problem forced me to challenge that belief. The result? I built a complex, production-ready React Native and .NET 9 application in a single day, using the very tool I help build.

Here is how I went from an idea to a potential App Store submission in 24 hours, with zero prior experience in mobile development.