Somewhere in this room is the one person who can tell if any of it is actually good. AI made everyone else look exactly like them.AI lets a solo founder produce a product, but it can’t help them understand whether that product is actually good…yet. That expertise, the hard-won judgment underneath it, has always been what decides who wins and who quietly (or epically) fails.There’s a movement in the startup world that currently claims if you can’t build your product by yourself, with AI, you shouldn’t be building it at all. The “advice” suggests that a solo founder should handle coding, design, and marketing with AI and should not hire a traditional team at all.Hiring someone to design or engineer your product, whether it’s an agency, a contractor, or an early employee, is treated as proof you don’t really understand your own product and a growing number of investors won’t back a...