The Gap Between "Works" and "Production-Ready" When You Build With AI You've built something in Lovable or Bolt. It works. Your users can sign up, create data, maybe pay you money. Then you start noticing the cracks: no deployment history, database locked on their servers, no rollback when something breaks, compliance questions you can't answer. This is the moment most founders realize AI builders optimize for iteration, not production. Here's what actually happens at that inflection point. Your app works great at 100 users. At 1000 users, you hit the builder's ceiling. Connection pooling becomes a bottleneck. Your database lives on infrastructure you don't control. There's no CI/CD pipeline, no staging environment, no way to test before you ship to real users. The honest truth: builders are brilliant for velocity. They're terrible for ownership. Most founders think this means starting over. Rewriting in Next.js. Setting up databases. Managing infrastructure. Six months gone. But there's a different path.…