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Creativity vs Engineering in the AI Era

Contents

  1. Where are all the AI-built apps?
  2. What is the difference between a prototype and a product?
  3. What is Toa?
  4. Examples

Where are all the AI-built apps?

Look what they say

ChatGPT 5 can instantly build an app with a single prompt.
Sam Altman
GROK will replace 95% of your developer teams
Elon Musk
You're all pieces of shit, my LLM will beat your code
Another BigTech CEO
With Cursor.AI you can build any app within a day!
One more CEO

Well. One day has already passed.

Where is all the AI-built software?

Two planets

Maybe it's in the App Store?

No, it's not

Maybe it's on the web?

No, it's not here either

The graveyard of prototypes

Here it is!

It’s prototyped

What is the difference between a prototype and a product?

Prototype and mass use

bike 1817
1817
first design by Baron Karl von Drais Sauerbronn
bike 1869
1869
pedals invention by Pickering and Devis Co
bike 1897
1897
conventional shape
bike 2025
2025
modern triathlon bicycle

User’s feedback

1897
It is not the machine's fault; it is the man's. The bicycle is a thing of beauty and a joy forever—until you try to ride it. The bicycle, I was glad to see, showed spirit; and the subsequent proceedings degenerated into little else than a rough and-tumble fight between him and the machine.
Jerome K. Jerome, "Three Men on Wheels"
2025
I just rode through the fucking shark at 90 MPH, and I am feeling kinda great about it
Remco Evenepoel, Road Race Olympic Gold 2024

What’s that all about: Complications

For a better example, let’s look at the term ‘Complications’ in horology (the science of timekeeping). A complication is any feature of a timepiece beyond the display of hours, minutes, and seconds.

clock 1737
1737
One of the first pocket watch illustrations, Acta Eruditorum
clock 1943
1943
Three complications on a Gallet MultiChron Navigator: a crown-controlled synchronizable second hand, a direction-finding 24-hour hand, and a 45-minute recording chronograph
clock 2015
2015
"The Most Complicated Watch in the World" by Vacheron Constantin — 57 complications, 2826 components, US$3 million per piece

Centuries of industrial evolution* bring standardized** solutions to solving the complications.

* Which software developments are not yet possessed
** Which software development is not yet possessed

Yet, adding a lot of complications into one piece is an act of engineering so complex that it makes it look like art.

Do you need complications?

Well, you are probably not

But when you deliver the product to your customers, they will

Do the conflicting stuff with your database simultaneously
Lost their devices and forgot their passwords
Loose internet connection
Connect at once by thousands or millions (if you're lucky) to one source
Try to cheat you
Try to cheat each other
And many, many more …
Microservices iceberg

Moreover, you are to face microservices

Microservices are the small parts of logic into which each conventional software is divided. Here’s the trick: microservices will quietly bring you the same issues. And, just like users, they are inevitable.

The iceberg of large IT departments

The problem of modern large IT departments

Simply — you can only see them by yourself (or with a group of disciplined and well-instructed friends).

95% of the work is solving problems

What is To?

When creativity meets engineering

Hands shaping a triangle
“Toa is the Art of Seeing Patterns in Complications”
— Artem Gurtovoi

Toa mission

Toa handles the complications and provides tools to actually build your business logic