We keep a running list of these. Some came from building our own products, some from shipping AI systems for businesses. All of them were learned the slightly embarrassing way.
memory is the feature. An agent that forgets yesterday makes you the integration layer. Every session that starts from zero quietly turns the human into the database, and nobody signed up to be a database. If your system can't remember, the user's job becomes remembering for it.
the demo works because you know where it breaks. Write that part down before you ship. The live demo feels effortless because the person driving knows exactly which input will take the whole thing down. That knowledge shouldn't live in one person's head. It's a test suite waiting to be written.
voice input won because typing an expense feels like homework. We built an expense tracker and the typing version lost to everything. The version that stuck lets you speak or type one line from a widget without opening the app. If your product depends on a habit the user doesn't have, you don't have a product, you have homework.
people believe cursors, not copy. The live demo outsold every paragraph we wrote. Show the thing working, warts and all, over the cleanest landing page ever written.
users forgive a wrong answer faster than a slow one. A wrong answer invites a correction. A slow one invites a closed tab. Speed is a trust feature.
The list keeps growing. The pattern across all of them: users are more forgiving than we think about mistakes and less forgiving than we think about friction.
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