By Janina
Remember grinding through backpropagation and recurrent neural networks? I do.
I spent all of 2017-2020 understanding deep neural networks, fighting with overfitting, and optimizing hyperparameters for my MSc in Computational Linguistics (NLP/LLMs), including research at BMW.
And now, every other day, I find myself feeling like a grandma not knowing what an email is when a friend tells me about the latest mind-blowing image generation model that got released like “yesterday”.
It's humbling (and slightly frustrating)—spending years learning the details, only to see that the game has totally changed and I am struggling to catch up.
Running an app development business and reading all those LinkedIn posts in the past week about how AI might or might not replace developers, my feeling of needing to catch up turned into a realization though: the rise of GenAI is a validation of my core philosophy in how I make apps (and definitely not a threat).
Because, as everyone has been saying, with development becoming more accessible (cheaper), strong product management becomes even more indispensable. And this has always been the foundation of Fishtail Product Lab: bringing apps to launch with budget-friendly, high-quality development driven by strong product management (which I personally oversee).
Also that's precisely why our name isn't Fishtail Technologies, but Fishtail Product Lab.
GenAI simply amplifies our ability to deliver on that promise.
So, to me, it feels like the perfect time to be building apps—and building them right.