⚡ MINIMUM VIABLE AI (MVA)
Minimum Viable AI is not about intelligence.
It’s about useful force.
Not AGI.
Not consciousness.
Not vibes.
👉 One job. Executed brutally well.
🧠 WHAT MVA
IS
Minimum Viable AI = the smallest possible intelligence that reliably creates leverage.
That’s it.
- One narrow task
- One clear input
- One deterministic output
- Zero personality
- Zero fluff
- Zero “assistant” cosplay
Think hammer, not “digital friend.”
❌ WHAT MVA IS NOT
- Not chatty
- Not creative unless required
- Not “helpful” in a human way
- Not bloated with features
- Not trying to replace humans
Big AI wants to feel smart.
MVA wants to work.
🔥 EXAMPLES OF REAL MVA
- A script that deletes bad photos automatically
- A model that flags only profitable trades
- A vision system that says YES / NO
- A filter that removes everything except signal
- A robot arm that repeats one motion perfectly forever
No opinions.
No explanations.
No apologies.
⚙️ THE MVA STACK (HARDCORE)
- Input constraint
– limit what the AI can even see - Single objective function
– one metric, no compromise - Deterministic failure
– when it fails, it fails loudly - Local-first
– edge > cloud
– ownership > subscription - Replaceable
– if it breaks, swap it
This is industrial intelligence, not theater.
🏗 WHY MVA WINS
Because intelligence scales down, not up.
- Cheaper
- Faster
- More reliable
- Easier to audit
- Harder to corrupt
The future is not one god-AI.
The future is 10,000 tiny AIs, each doing one thing with violent precision.
🧬 MVA AS PHILOSOPHY
Intelligence is not how much you know.
Intelligence is how little you need to know to act correctly.
Minimum viable knowledge.
Maximum decisive action.
🚀 THE REAL PLAY
If you’re building anything:
- Strip the AI down
- Remove the interface
- Kill the personality
- Kill the roadmap
- Kill the hype
Ask only:
“What is the smallest intelligence that makes this unstoppable?”
That’s Minimum Viable AI.
Cold.
Focused.
Relentless.