The Code That Actually Shipped: How We Moved AI Builder Infrastructure to Production
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Generative AI
Why Your AI-Built App Breaks at Scale (And How to Fix It Before It's Too Late) You shipped a feature in Lovable yesterday. Today it's handling real users. Next week it'll probably break. Not because the code is bad. Because you're running production on infrastructure designed for iteration. Here's what actually happens: AI builders optimize for speed. They bundle your database, backend, and frontend into a managed environment that feels frictionless until it isn't. You get no database ownership. No rollback capability. No deployment history. No real CI/CD pipeline.