We had a tight deadline. v0 generated a working form component in minutes. shipped it. two weeks later, our error rates spiked because the component didn't handle network timeouts properly. nobody had actually read the code. the component was polling without exponential backoff, just hammering our API in a retry loop.

turns out "working" and "production-ready" are different things. v0 gave us the shape of a solution, not a solution. Loveable's the same trap. both tools are great for scaffolding ui, genuinely. but they don't understand your system's constraints. they don't know your kafka topics fail sometimes. they don't think about cascading failures.

the real cost wasn't development time. it was debug time. when your generated code breaks in production, you're reading someone else's code at 2am trying to understand why it exists. my team spent four days fixing timeout logic that should've taken an hour to think through properly.

now we use these tools differently. UI mockups, sure. business logic, error handling, anything touching infrastructure. nah. write it yourself. know why each line exists.

don't let the speed seduce you.