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 1, 2026 · 9 min
Database Migration Hell: How AI Builders Corrupt Your Schema
Conflicting Supabase migrations, columns added twice, RLS policies stacked on top of themselves. Why AI agents wreck your schema and how to recover.
ReadJune 30, 2026 · 8 min
The Blank Slate Fallacy: Why AI Needs Architecture Before Code
AI is a brilliant junior dev and a terrible architect. Define your schema, auth, and RLS first — or watch it build you a skyscraper with no blueprints.
ReadJune 29, 2026 · 8 min
The 10-Million Token Bug: The Hidden Cost of Vibe Coding
Hundreds in token refills to watch Bolt and Lovable reintroduce the same bug. The real bill isn't credits — it's the time tax compounding behind them.
ReadJune 28, 2026 · 9 min
The Ejection Trap: Surviving the Export from Lovable to Local
Hit Export Project and discover broken env vars, monolithic files, missing pieces, and a build that won't build. Here's the survival path.
ReadJune 27, 2026 · 8 min
Why Your AI Authentication Flow Keeps Breaking
Static UIs are easy. Sessions, redirects, and protected routes are where AI agents fall apart. Here's why auth breaks — and the patterns that hold.
ReadJune 26, 2026 · 9 min
The Sanity Layer: Security Audits for AI-Generated Code
AI optimizes for working, not safe. Open RLS, leaked API keys, unverified webhooks — the audit checklist for every vibe-coded app before it sees a real user.
ReadJune 25, 2026 · 8 min
From v0 Frontend to Full-Stack Reality
v0 makes the UI sing. It doesn't make the database, the auth, or the API. Here's how to wire a beautiful empty shell into a real working product.
ReadJune 24, 2026 · 8 min
The Cursor Takeover: How to Finish What Lovable Started
Lovable and Bolt are S-tier for the first 70%. Cursor with Claude is S-tier for the last 30%. The handoff playbook, with no credits burned.
ReadJune 23, 2026 · 8 min
"It Was Working Yesterday!": Taming AI Context Degradation
Day 1 the AI is a genius. Day 15 it rewrites your core logic to change a button color. Why context degrades and how to keep an AI codebase maintainable.
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