Eric Simons

AI Exposes Fake Work; Bolt Eliminates Prototyping Waste

You don't realize how much "fake work" you're doing until AI eliminates it. Fake work is all the friction we accepted as necessary just to get the job done. For years, writing strict syntax wasn't the actual engineering. It was just manual translation labor for the machine. Writing a memo to a committee to get permission to build a prototype wasn't the work. It was just the tax you paid because building was expensive. Now that AI makes building instant, those steps are revealed for what they are. At bolt.new , we are planting our flag on eliminating the biggest source of fake work in product development: Prototyping. For decades, the industry standard has been to build a throwaway version of the product to validate it, only to have engineers rebuild it from scratch for production. That definition is dying. We recently shipped three updates to build the workflow that replaces it: - Production Repos. You can now pull repositories directly from your GitHub organizations. You are building against your real production architecture, not a sandbox. - Multi-Design Import. We updated Figma imports to handle multiple designs at once, so you can build full, multi-page application flows instantly. - Real Components. Most importantly, you can now use your own design system components. That means the "prototype" isn't throwaway code anymore. It is production-ready code that your engineers can actually use without rewriting it. Stop doing fake work. Just build the product. ⚡️