Ethan Campbell

With tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and Lovable, spinning up a working prototype over a weekend is basically effortless now. We shipped faster than ever and actually got our first paying users in week two.

The catch? Because we prompted our way through the architecture instead of planning it, fixing a simple UI bug now breaks three unrelated API endpoints. We're spending more time debugging AI-generated spaghetti than talking to users.

For founders who launched an AI coded MVP this year.