Beating the blank page and the myth of building a SaaS in 2 weeks

Lessons learned 3/11 after 15 years in software and 1 year of intensive Cursor use

Another undeniable strength of AI: beating blank page syndrome.

Two immediate benefits

Often, you can find yourself facing a task without knowing where to start. Asking AI gives you two advantages:

1. It requires a minimum of formalization of your need, which pushes you to make a first structuring effort
2. It gives you a working base with the first generated script

If you rarely know what you want at the beginning, you often know what you don't want. This first generation will use methods, procedures or sophistications that you'll gladly throw away explicitly on the second round of code generation.

The prototype mirage

Starting from scratch, it's entirely possible to build a fairly advanced prototype in 2 weeks.

BUT getting it into production shape is likely to take much longer. Current AIs eventually saturate due to a strictly increasing level of complexity as features grow.

"I built my SaaS in 2 weeks"

You've probably seen these posts everywhere. The reality:

• If it's actually the complete SaaS, competition will be fierce — what you did in 2 weeks, others will do too
• If it's a prototype, the next iterations risk being very expensive, unless you really dig into the code
• The DevOps part remains crucial to the SaaS lifecycle, and there are major security risks — don't go solo if you lack experience

AI shortens the path between the idea and the first prototype. But it doesn't shorten the path between the prototype and a reliable, secure and maintainable product. That's still a profession.

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_Originally published on LinkedIn._