I Could Tell You My AI Has Never Lied. I'm Not Going To.
Seven months, two generations, one production rebuild — and five things I learned that I did not expect to learn.
This is not a product announcement. It is a build log with the workings left in — what I decided, what I got wrong, which models I used at which stage, and the workflow that made a one-month rebuild of a production platform possible at all. If you are building with AI coding agents, the second half of this article is the part worth your time. If you are evaluating AI for your own company, the first half is.