@grammasaurus Found out it's actually a book making the point that those early prototypes are "something else".
"The concept of pretotyping was founded in 2009 by Google Innovation Agitator and Doctor of ‘Failosophy’, Alberto Savoia, through Google and Stanford University. After several years of refining pretotyping at Google, Alberto became actively involved with the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, teaming up with lecturers Richard Cox Braden and Tina Seelig. Over the next few years, Alberto and the team worked to perfect the techniques (and the pedagogy) of pretotyping with Stanford students and Silicon Valley companies."
An Innovation Agitator and who is a doctor in 'Failosophy'. I see what's going on.
https://www.exponentially.com/what-is-pretotyping