Why AI builders keep shipping code that wasn't tested for scale
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Why Your AI-Built App Falls Apart at Scale (And How to Fix It) Here's what actually happens when you take an app built in Lovable or Bolt and try to run it with real users: the builder's infrastructure wasn't designed for production load. It was designed for iteration. I'm not saying the app doesn't work. It works fine in development. But the moment you hit actual traffic, you run into three hard walls. Wall One: Your Data Isn't Yours When you build in a platform like Base44 or Lovable, your database lives on their servers. You don't control backups. You don't control access logs.