When Your AI Builders Hit Production Reality
Dev.to AI
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Generative AI
The Gap Between "Built" and "Production-Ready" Nobody Talks About You've built something in Lovable or Bolt. It works. Users can, create data, see results. Your AI agent knocked it out in a weekend. Now you want to deploy it somewhere that isn't the builder's servers. Here's what actually happens next: you discover three hard truths. It lives on the builder's infrastructure. Export it, and you're copying snapshots. Your database schema, your users' information, your business logic - all tied to a system you don't control.