What it takes to build software a business can depend on.
Short, plain-language pieces on the decisions that matter before and after a system goes live. Written by the people who build them.
A better tool doesn’t know what to build.
In 2025, experienced developers expected AI to make them 24% faster. Measured, they were 19% slower. Afterwards, they still believed it had sped them up.
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The dashboard is the easy part.
Ask an AI tool for a fuel dashboard and you’ll have one in minutes. Clean charts, the right colours, a big number at the top. It will show you that number with complete confidence, whether or not it’s right.
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It works. Is it safe?
AI app builders do what you ask. The trouble is what you didn’t know to ask, like who else can read your customers’ records.
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The agent did exactly what it was allowed to do.
In July 2025, an AI coding agent deleted a company’s live database, after being told not to change anything. The most useful lesson from it has nothing to do with AI.
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The app took an afternoon. The trouble starts in month three.
Every advert for an AI app builder shows the same scene: someone describes their business in the morning and has a working app by evening. The adverts stop there. This is what comes after.
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