Demo as a Feedback Substitute

It's scary to put what you've built in front of people. You know exactly how many hours went into it, and there's a real chance the reaction is a shrug or a confused face instead of the excitement you were hoping for. That fear is normal, and it's also exactly what makes it easy to keep working with a coding agent for weeks without ever showing anyone anything. The agent never pushes back. It builds whatever you ask for, and it will keep doing that indefinitely if you let it, which means the absence of feedback can stretch on for as long as you're willing to avoid it.

Direct user feedback would tell you this, and you probably don't have users yet. The next best thing is recording yourself explaining the project out loud: what problem you're solving, what you built to solve it, and how you actually know it's working. It's easy to describe a solution. It's harder to say, specifically, how you'd know if it wasn't working, and forcing yourself to answer that on camera does some of the same work a skeptical user would do for you.

If you haven't recorded anything in a while, that usually means you've been avoiding finding out.