AI can scaffold a working app in minutes. It can't tell you why the login breaks under two users, why a webhook fires twice, or why a query that's instant today crawls at scale. Why the demo-to-product gap hasn't closed — and what still separates the two.
AI made the easy 90% of software instant. The hard 90% is still yours.
You type one sentence into a prompt box. Ninety seconds later, there's a running app.
A form. A database. A chart that updates when you submit it. It looks done.
It isn't.
Open two browser tabs. Log in as the same user in both.
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