> The core tech must be separable from the product

The biggest product of the century thus, LLMs, are the core tech.

I don't doubt these rules have helped the author, but readers should be mindful when heeding them.

Agreed, but he is talking about limited-scope projects, that he probably does himself. That’s how I work, myself (these days).

In the past, I worked in teams, building much more ambitious projects, and these rules would likely not apply.

The product is automation; the tech is llms