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.
June 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.
ReadJune 22, 2026 · 9 min
The Lovable Exodus: When to Eject and How to Survive It
Burning credits to move an icon? Here's when to migrate out of Lovable, what breaks the moment you export, and how to land on a stack you actually own.
ReadJune 21, 2026 · 7 min
Claude vs. Cursor: Why You're Asking the Wrong Question
The Claude vs Cursor debate is a procrastination ritual. Here's the hybrid workflow that actually ships, and why the tool wars are stealing your week.
ReadJune 20, 2026 · 8 min
The True Cost of AI Coding Tools (It's Not the $20 Subscription)
The sticker price is a rounding error. The real bill is the time tax, the hallucination debug loop, and the cognitive drain of living in five chat windows.
ReadJune 19, 2026 · 8 min
From Prototype to Production: Choosing the Right AI Stack for Your Stage
v0 and Lovable are S-tier for 0-to-1 and a liability at 1-to-scale. A practical framework for which tool to use when, and where the cliff actually is.
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