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Key Takeaways Founders point AI at the tasks they’re already doing and ask if it can make them faster or cheaper.
But if you’ve shelved a project because the cost or time never added up, that’s the more interesting question AI just reopened.
Before you point AI at your next task list, consider which of the things you decided not to do are worth doing now that the cost of trying has dropped.
The instinct with AI is to look at something you’re already doing and ask whether it can be done faster or cheaper.
That’s a reasonable place to start, but it only sharpens work you’ve already decided is worth doing, when the bigger question is what AI now lets you attempt that you couldn’t justify before.
1. What have you shelved because the numbers didn’t work?
Founders often carry a mental list of ideas they wanted to build and set aside, not because the idea was bad, but because the cost or time never penciled out.
I had one of those. We wanted a mobile app for years, and we had developers who could have built it. What we didn’t have was a strong enough reason to pull a team off other priorities for the months it would have taken. Thanks to AI, I built the first version of the Omni Calculator app myself with Claude Code earlier this year, in under a month, without having written a line of code in more than 10 years.
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