The Deploy Tax: The Hidden Cost Nobody Talks About After AI Generates Your Code

There's a cost that shows up right after AI writes the code.

Not the debugging cost. Not the "works on my machine" cost. The one that comes even earlier, before any of that.

The deploy cost.

Here's what I mean

You prompt Claude or ChatGPT to build a landing page. It does it in 45 seconds. Clean HTML, good structure, looks exactly right in the chat window.