The Gap Between "Built" and "Production-Ready" When Using AI Builders You ship a feature in Lovable in two hours. It works. Users can click buttons, forms submit, data appears. You feel productive. Then someone asks: "Where does this actually live? Can we roll back if something breaks? Who owns the database?" That's when you hit the wall most founders don't talk about. AI builders optimize for iteration speed, not infrastructure ownership. They're excellent at that job. But they create a specific problem: your app works beautifully inside their sandbox, then you discover it's not actually yours until you move it somewhere real. Here's what actually happens at that transition point: Your database lives on their servers. Your code is locked in their export format. You have no rollback mechanism. There's no CI/CD pipeline. If something breaks in production, you rebuild from scratch or pray their backup system works. You can't integrate with your own infrastructure.…