I Spent a Year Building Production Apps with AI Coding Tools. Here's What Nobody Tells You.

I couldn't build a production-ready app solo in a week, a year ago. Today I can. And the reason is not what most tutorials will tell you. This is the honest version - the failures, the breakthroughs, and the mental model shift that made everything click. I'll also walk through one of the open source projects I built using these principles: the Python Resume Generator, an AI system designed around anti-hallucination architecture. The myth that slowed me down When I started using AI coding tools seriously, I treated them like a smarter search engine. Type a vague question. Get code.