Articles and guides for founders whose AI-built or no-code MVPs are breaking in production. Plain English, no jargon, checklist-driven. Useful whether you hire me or not.
AI coding assistants don't write broken code. They write plausible code. Five failure patterns — authentication, data models, helper bloat, swallowed errors, fragile integrations — that show up under real users, real data, real production load. With a weekly / monthly / milestone review pattern you can actually run.
Read more →A 9-point checklist for founders. When your MVP has outgrown the shortcuts that built it, how to recognize the handoff moment, and how a structured handoff — not a rewrite — gets you back to focusing on the business instead of debugging one.
Read more →Seven hidden line items on a "cheap" MVP — schema rework, founder-as-infra tax, vendor lock-in, security remediation, hire-ramp penalty, velocity decay, panic rewrites — and how to pay each one early when it's still a one-line fix and not a quarter-long crisis.
Read more →AI gets you to 80% fast. The last 20% is real engineering. A long-form guide to the specific ways AI-built apps break once they meet real users, real data, and real uptime expectations — and what to do about each failure mode.
Read more →CORS errors are the #1 thing that breaks every AI-generated MVP after deployment. Why AI tools routinely configure CORS incorrectly, how to diagnose what's actually failing, and the correct fix for every common scenario — not the copy-paste "allow all origins" fix.
Read more →Real reasons your app runs fine on localhost and crashes after deployment. Environment variables, database configs, build-process differences, secret handling, and the specific gotchas that don't show up until real users hit real infrastructure.
Read more →A practical guide for non-developers who want to build with AI coding tools. How to plan your MVP, write better prompts, structure your project to survive past day three, and get the architecture right from the start — not after it's already broken.
Read more →Some posts land here first, then get reposted on Medium and dev.to with rel=canonical pointing back to this site. If you found me there first, welcome — you're now on the canonical version.