2026-07-03
Becoming an AI-Era PM 10 | High-Fidelity First: I Haven't Drawn a Wireframe in Six Months
This is the tenth piece in the series Becoming an AI-Era PM. Low-fidelity wireframes existed because building a real version was expensive — you had to align on direction with gray boxes first. Now a single sentence gets you a page you can actually click in a browser within minutes: n8n's product team ripped their wireframe flow out entirely, and a director at Delivery Hero hand-built a prototype in an hour without pulling in an engineer. I haven't drawn a single wireframe in six months either. This piece is about how I skip low-fi and go straight to building something runnable and high-fidelity: real content instead of placeholders, every state filled in (loading / empty / error / success), actually clickable, run for real in a browser — plus the one new habit that having a version in minutes gave me.
