Tristan Kromer

I tweet on innovation at scale. 37 accelerators, 6 govs, 11 unis, 24 1B+ corps

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[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

Testing an idea used to cost me a day of hand-coding. Now it's 5 min to prompt, 30 to make tea. That's why I rewrote the book: when building is free, building the wrong thing is the only real cost. https://t.co/EcudKFTS3B

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If you wouldn't trust a junior researcher to improvise follow-up questions, don't trust AI to either. Design your prompts before you run the interviews. https://t.co/v1qbp1bXOa

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

Talking to 200 customers isn't about 200 answers. It's about finding the 3 questions worth asking deeply. https://t.co/v1qbp1bXOa

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

If my experiment only runs on AI-generated responses, I haven't talked to a customer yet. https://t.co/aHospNQzra

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

AI lowered the cost of building. Not the cost of building the wrong thing. https://t.co/FSvt9yZCuq

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

Before I prototype an idea, I decide what result would make me delete it. If I can't answer that, I'm not running an experiment. https://t.co/FSvt9yZCuq

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

If I can't bring myself to delete the code, I skipped the experiment and started building a product. https://t.co/FafcSpIqWc

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

AI lets me sketch a working product in hours. The hard part isn't building it — it's deleting it when the experiment ends. https://t.co/FafcSpIqWc

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

The most valuable output of running AI interviews at scale isn't the answers — it's knowing which questions are worth asking a human next. https://t.co/waicqqFyPC

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

A bad AI interview prompt, run at scale, just produces confident noise. The discipline is in the question, not the volume. https://t.co/waicqqFyPC

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

Speed only matters if you're headed somewhere real. AI helps me move faster — it doesn't tell me if the destination exists. https://t.co/sZPJbm9kjy

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

A demo that works is not evidence that customers will buy. It's evidence that the demo works. https://t.co/sZPJbm9kjy

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

The real AI risk isn't wrong answers. It's confidently wrong ones. https://t.co/sZPJbm9kjy

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

If I wouldn't trust a junior researcher to improvise follow-up questions, I don't trust AI to either. I design the prompts before I run the interviews. https://t.co/eCbDaaery5

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

When I can interview dozens of people at once with AI, the bottleneck shifts — it's no longer recruiting. It's knowing what to ask. https://t.co/eCbDaaery5

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

Running 200 AI interviews isn't about 200 answers. It's about finding the short list of questions worth asking a human next. https://t.co/eCbDaaery5

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

If I can't delete the code when the experiment ends, I probably stopped treating it as an experiment. https://t.co/ObetbF4XD8

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

AI lets me sketch a working prototype in hours. The hard part isn't building it — it's deleting it once I have my answer. https://t.co/ObetbF4XD8

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

AI-generated customer personas feel like insight. They're actually a shortcut past the customers. https://t.co/NQ6g0Rp0Cy

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

The real danger of AI in early-stage research isn't bad output — it's plausible output that replaces the conversation you needed to have. https://t.co/NQ6g0RosN0

[Tristan Kromer @TriKro]

Most founders get bad data because they ran the wrong experiment for the question they had. AI runs it 10x faster — it can't tell you which question to ask. New RSB 2nd-ed teaser: https://t.co/06NuCluvK2