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A client built custom infrastructure for something ChatGPT does in 4 seconds. Hi there, Got a story for you. A founder I know spent $43,000 building a custom AI agent for their business. Six months of dev time, a contracted AI engineer, a vector database, "agent orchestration framework," the works. You know what the agent did? It categorized customer support emails into eight buckets and routed them to the right person. That's it. I tested the same task in ChatGPT — paste an email, ask which...
Three of the points will surprise you. Most teams miss all three. Hi there, Your team shipped code an AI wrote. Did they check it? Not "does it work." That's table stakes. I mean: did anyone check whether it'll get you sued, breached, or shut down? I just built a 20-point security checklist specifically for codebases where AI did the writing. Cursor, Claude Code, Lovable, Replit, Bolt — doesn't matter which tool. The mistakes rhyme. Three of the points that surprise people the most: 1. API...