Why your AI builder's infrastructure decisions haunt you at scale

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

The Gap Between "Working" and "Production-Ready": Why AI-Built Apps Hit a Wall You built something in Lovable or Bolt in a weekend. It works. Users can, create data, move things around. The feedback loop is tight. You iterate fast. This is exactly what AI builders are optimized for. Then you try to scale it. Suddenly you realize your database lives on someone else's servers. Your code is locked in their