⚠️ Cautionary Tale: How AI Let Us Build Fast and Crash Faster

Cursor is magic.

Like actual magic.

10x productivity. Instant scaffolding. Refactors on rails.

So we did what any overconfident team would do:

We shipped fast. We shipped hard. We shipped into a fucking wall.

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Here’s what happened:

• Built everything in isolation

• Unit tests? Green across the board

• Velocity? Off the charts

• Integration? Never heard of her

Then came deployment.

🚨 Command handlers weren’t registered

🚨 Event subscribers never fired

🚨 Env vars missing or misnamed

🚨 Frontend broke because we used ORM models as API response shapes

It was like watching a Formula 1 car smash into a wall made of JSON schema violations.

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Lesson?

AI will let you overdrive your headlights.

It’ll accelerate you past the point of no return if you don’t build checkpoints into your process.

Write your contracts first.

Use shared types.

Abuse pnpm workspaces.

Integration isn’t a phase—it’s a lifestyle.

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We’re cleaning it up.

The bones are solid.

But damn—there’s a lot of fat we let pile up while chasing speed.

Don’t be like us.

Build smart.

Integrate often.

Avoid the wall.