Building RiskLens CI: The Reality of AI + Dev Tooling Friction

This one was different I’ve built AI systems before. RAG pipelines. Automation tools. Dashboards. But building RiskLens CI ? This one pushed me in a different way. Not because the idea was hard… But because the environment was. The constant back and forth This wasn’t a straight build. It was: switching between tools fighting with extensions reconfiguring environments debugging things that should have worked And doing it over and over again. One minute everything runs. Next minute something breaks for no clear reason. The hidden complexity of “AI-powered dev” From the outside, it looks simple: “Just use AI, build fast, ship.” But in reality? You’re dealing with: API inconsistencies environment mismatches dependency conflicts version issues across tools cloud vs local differences And when you’re building something like a CI assistant… Everything has to work together. The part nobody talks about The frustration. The restarting. The feeling of: “Why is this breaking again?” It’s not just t