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A prototype built with AI tools runs and demos fine, but when it's time to go live, many owners rush to add features and end up with something no one dares touch. This article defines maintainability in four plain terms — understandable, changeable, observable, recoverable — and gives the order to fix them in.
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A product built with Cursor, Claude Code, or Lovable can demo well, but when it's time to hand it to real customers, you don't know what's still missing. This article lists five things most commonly missing — security, backups, monitoring, deployment, error handling — one question to ask yourself for each, a 10-minute self-check, and the order to fix them in.
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