Most software projects do not fail at the building stage. They fail at the understanding stage. The building just makes the failure visible.
I have watched teams spend weeks writing detailed requirement documents, only to discover on delivery day that the document described something nobody actually wanted. The problem was not carelessness. The problem was that ambiguity hides in written language. It sits between the lines, in the assumptions everyone thought were shared but never tested.
When we were designing how Blazorly works, this was the thing I kept coming back to. Not how fast can we build. How fast can we surface the misunderstanding.
So we made the AI ask questions before it builds. Not perfunctory confirmation prompts. Real questions. The kind that force you to confront what you have not decided yet. What happens when this field is empty. Who approves this and what if they are unavailable. What does "overdue" actually mean in your context.
It feels slower in the first ten minutes. People sometimes get impatient with it. But those ten minutes replace the three-week argument that would have happened after delivery.
The interesting pattern I have noticed is that teams often cannot agree on their own process until the tool forces clarity. The app becomes a mirror. People look at it and realize they have been operating on different assumptions for years.
Requirements are not a stage you complete. They are a risk you manage continuously. The best thing a tool can do is refuse to let you move forward until the fog clears.
Precision before speed. Every time.