I am running an AI-native startup. Early on though, I would spend so much time staying ahead of every new AI hot take that I lost focus on what I needed to do to move the company forward. I didn't need a hundred skills, fifty MCP servers, or Ralph Wiggum loops sending my API bill to the moon. I needed answers to plain questions. What is this model costing me? Is it writing code I keep? Is that tip I saw on X helping, or just making me feel busy? Those are operating questions. Using Claude is ...