The wrapper trap

It's tempting to wrap a clever prompt in a nice UI and call it a product. It demos well. It launches in a weekend. And it falls apart the moment a real user pushes on it.

What's actually missing

• Real data — RAG over your own documents and history
• Real workflow — multi-step tools, not single-shot prompts
• Real evaluation — knowing when the model gets it wrong
• Real fallbacks — when the AI fails, the system doesn't