There's a strange new kind of stuck. It doesn't look like a technical blocker or a failing build. It looks like an open laptop, a capable AI assistant, and a founder or product lead staring at a blank prompt, paralyzed by possibility. As developer Maciej Krawczyk put it after months of mentoring builders through this exact moment:
"The problem is not an inability to write the next piece of code; it is not knowing which piece of code deserves the next few days of work".
