Why Your AI-Built App Works in the Demo But Breaks at Scale You built something in Lovable or Bolt in a weekend. It works. Your first customers sign up. Then the requests start coming: "Can we host this ourselves?" "Where's our data?" "What happens if your platform goes down?" That's when you hit the wall most builders don't talk about. AI builders are optimized for one thing: iteration speed. They're brilliant at that. But they're not optimized for production. Your database lives on their servers. Your code is locked in their proprietary format. There's no rollback if something breaks. No deployment history. No real CI/CD pipeline. The math gets ugly fast. You've got real users, real revenue, and zero infrastructure ownership. Here's what actually happens when you try to scale: You discover you can't add custom domain SSL without fighting their UI. You can't integrate with your existing databases. You can't audit who changed what, when.…