I feel like AI coding tools accidentally created a new startup problem nobody talks about enough.

Shipping products is becoming ridiculously fast now. A solo founder can build an entire SaaS in a weekend with Cursor, Claude, Lovable, Bolt, etc.

But maintaining those products after launch feels like a completely different skillset.

The more I talk to founders, the more I keep hearing the same things:

• random production failures

• authentication issues

• scaling problems

• webhook chaos

• database bottlenecks

• impossible-to-debug AI-generated code

• rebuilding the entire app after early traction

Feels like we moved from: “Can you build it?” to: “Can you survive maintaining it?”

Curious how developers here are approaching this.

Are you:

• vibecoding first and cleaning later?

• engineering properly from day one?

• rebuilding after validation?

• using AI only for isolated tasks?

Feels like there’s a huge middle ground forming between traditional engineering and pure AI-generated development workflows.

We’ve been seeing similar conversations while working with founders building scalable MVPs at FoundersBar: https://foundersbar.com