AI-Built Apps Are Breaking Businesses

Founders are shipping faster than ever. A weekend, a few prompts, and a product is live. No developer hired, no budget spent, no waiting. For the first few weeks, it works. Users sign up, the demo is clean, and the founder feels unstoppable. Then something breaks. A user can't log in, a security researcher flags an exposed API key, or traffic spikes and the server just stops responding. This is the reality of many AI-built apps that quietly fall apart once they hit the real world. I'm Asaduzzaman "Asad" Pavel, a senior software engineer and consultant. Since 2011, I've been building production systems across fintech, streaming, and SaaS. I'm seeing more and more founders run into this wall: they built something that looks like a product but is actually a liability. The problem with AI-built apps The issue isn't the AI; it's what it doesn't tell you. These tools generate code that runs, not code that's maintainable. I've seen codebases where adding a single button took weeks because the