Why Beginners Should Ask AI More Questions Before Building An App (opens in new tab)

The beginner mistake with AI is not asking a bad first question. That part is normal. The real mistake is accepting the first answer as the plan. You type something like: Build me an app for musicians to record song ideas. Then the AI comes back with a confident wall of features, files, stack choices, user flows, auth decisions, database tables, integrations, edge cases, and a UI direction that somehow already has a dashboard. It feels productive because the answer is big. But big is not the ...