When Your AI-Built App Hits Reality: The Production Gap Nobody Talks About You built something in Lovable or Bolt in three days. It works. Your first users are signing up. Then the requests start: "Can we host this ourselves?" "Where's our data?" "What happens if we need to roll back?" That's when you realize the builder optimized for iteration, not production. Here's what actually happens: Your app lives in the builder's database. Your code is locked in their proprietary format. There's no deployment history, no rollback mechanism, no real CI/CD pipeline. You can export the code, sure, but getting it running on AWS or Vercel requires rebuilding half the infrastructure. A two-person team might spend two weeks on what should take a day. The math gets worse fast. You're managing two systems now: the builder for iteration, production infrastructure for users. Your data is split. Your deployment process is manual. You're one bad update away from losing everything, with no way to revert.…