I let AI write 100% of my code for 30 days. Here's what broke.

Not "AI-assisted." Not "copilot suggestions I edited." I mean I made a rule: for 30 days, I don't type application code. The AI does. My job is to describe, review, and approve.

I shipped a real product this way — a small SaaS with auth, Stripe billing, a dashboard, and a public API. It works. It's in production. And along the way I found out exactly where the "AI writes everything now" dream holds up and where it quietly falls apart.

This isn't a hype post and it isn't a doom post. It's a field report.

The rules

To keep myself honest:

I let AI write 100% of my code for 30 days. Here's what broke.

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