Tech Translator essentials

You do not need to become technical. You need enough of the map to know what questions to ask.

This is the map before AI 101. Ten tiny cards on how software actually fits together, where information moves, and why projects go wrong when context stays in someone's head.

• 1You need a map, not a computer science degree
• 2Software is a stack of things talking to each other
• 3Data is the thing moving through the system
• 4An API is a contract between systems
• 5A feature is not a requirement
• 6The happy path is the tiniest part of the product
• 7Every action needs an owner, a state and a consequence
• 8Build, buy or connect are different decisions
• 9AI is a component, not magic dust
• 10Software is a loop, not a reveal