Build Notes

The real reason behind switching AI build tools so often — a hybrid, redundant stack across three providers plus a local fallback, and the lesson that made it non-negotiable.

Why a full week of living inside staging before anything ships changed how I decide whether a feature is actually ready, not just whether it compiles.

A first-hand account of the exact failure pattern AI-assisted building creates when speed outruns architecture — and what it actually looks like when a fix in one place starts breaking two unrelated things.