I Spent a Year Building Production Apps with AI Coding Tools. Here's What Nobody Tells You.

The author details a year-long journey building production apps with AI coding tools, highlighting a crucial mental model shift that enabled solo development of production-ready applications. Initially frustrated by treating AI as a search engine, the key to success involved overcoming inconsistent outputs and context loss by adopting a new approach, exemplified by an anti-hallucination architecture in an open-source project.