The Launched blog
Notes from the last 10%.
Lessons from shipping AI-built products into the wild — auth, payments, vendor lock-in, scaling pain, and the unglamorous fixes that get prototypes paying.
July 28, 2026 · 7 min
Circular Dependencies: The Silent Killer in Lovable and Bolt Apps
Circular Dependencies: The Silent Killer in Lovable and Bolt Apps. The engineering reality behind the symptom, why AI agents can't fix it, and the moves that ship your app to production.
ReadJuly 27, 2026 · 7 min
The AI Spaghetti Code Phenomenon: Identifying and Fixing AI-Generated Messes
The AI Spaghetti Code Phenomenon: Identifying and Fixing AI-Generated Messes. The engineering reality behind the symptom, why AI agents can't fix it, and the moves that ship your app to production.
ReadJuly 26, 2026 · 7 min
Prompt Isolation: How to Scope AI Tasks to Prevent System-Wide Breakages
Prompt Isolation: How to Scope AI Tasks to Prevent System-Wide Breakages. The engineering reality behind the symptom, why AI agents can't fix it, and the moves that ship your app to production.
ReadJuly 25, 2026 · 7 min
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs. Your Codebase: Why It Destroys Working Features
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs. Your Codebase: Why It Destroys Working Features. The engineering reality behind the symptom, why AI agents can't fix it, and the moves that ship your app to production.
ReadJuly 24, 2026 · 7 min
The Duplicate Component Hallucination: Why Your AI App is Running Two Versions of React
The Duplicate Component Hallucination: Why Your AI App is Running Two Versions of React. The engineering reality behind the symptom, why AI agents can't fix it, and the moves that ship your app to production.
ReadJuly 23, 2026 · 7 min
Context Window Exhaustion: Why Day 30 of Building an AI App is Hell
Context Window Exhaustion: Why Day 30 of Building an AI App is Hell. The engineering reality behind the symptom, why AI agents can't fix it, and the moves that ship your app to production.
ReadJuly 22, 2026 · 7 min
The Economics of Extraction: The ROI of Hiring Engineers to Finish Your AI App
The Economics of Extraction: The ROI of Hiring Engineers to Finish Your AI App. The engineering reality behind the symptom, why AI agents can't fix it, and the moves that ship your app to production.
ReadJuly 21, 2026 · 7 min
Stop Paying AI to Fix Its Own Bugs: Breaking the Hallucination Cycle
Stop Paying AI to Fix Its Own Bugs: Breaking the Hallucination Cycle. The engineering reality behind the symptom, why AI agents can't fix it, and the moves that ship your app to production.
ReadJuly 20, 2026 · 7 min
Budgeting for an AI MVP: The True Financial Math Nobody Tells You
Budgeting for an AI MVP: The True Financial Math Nobody Tells You. The engineering reality behind the symptom, why AI agents can't fix it, and the moves that ship your app to production.
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