We Built It in a Weekend. Getting It to Production Cost Us Three Weeks.
Dev.to AI
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Generative AI
Why Your AI-Built App Works in the Builder But Fails in Production You ship something in Lovable or Bolt in three days. It works. Users log in, data saves, everything feels right. Then you try to deploy it to real infrastructure and hit a wall you didn't see coming. The wall is this: AI builders are optimized for iteration, not production. They hide infrastructure complexity behind a polished UI. That's great for building. It's terrible for scaling.