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Most AI Demos Break in Production
AI demos are easy.
Production systems are hard.
A chatbot answering 5 test prompts is not the same as:
- handling thousands of users
- recovering from failures
- validating outputs
- managing long-running workflows
- preventing hallucinations
- maintaining consistency
That’s why real AI engineering is shifting toward:
- orchestration
- observability
- structured outputs
- validation layers
- human review systems
The future belongs to AI systems that are reliable, not just impressive.
And reliability is still an engineering problem.
I agree 👍
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Engineered an end-to-end AI platform that scans entire GitHub organizations for vulnerabilities and auto-generates fix PRs.
What it does:
Crawls 100+ repos via GitHub GraphQL API in batch mode
Runs GPT-4 over real source code to detect SQL injection, XSS, hardcoded secrets, CSRF, auth bypasses
Scores by severity, generates secure code fixes, creates PRs automatically
Real-time WebSocket dashboard shows live progress
Tech: Next.js 15 · Node.js · Supabase · BullMQ · Redis · OpenAI · CrewAI
Open source, MIT licensed: github.com/aymandakir/org-code-ai
Shipped in under 2 weeks. Full stack, production-ready.
Great work! And it's open source too. 😄
How good of a web designer is AI?
I put Claude Design to the test asking it to redesign my client's product inventory page I built in Framer.
In under 10min it produced 2 variations. Neither can go on client's website directly but it surfaced two years' worth of overlooked improvements I can implement manually.
The gap between AI output and production-ready website is there, but in the hands of a web designer who knows what to do with the output, it has a valuable place in the workflow.
Feels like AI isn’t replacing the designer, it’s just speeding up the "thinking layer". Like you said, it surfaces things we somehow miss for months.
Still needs a human eye to make it actually usable, but as a brainstorming partner, it’s kind of crazy good.
What if you could practice your hardest client call before it actually happens?
I built a skeptical startup founder on Character.ai: Series A pending, burned by freelancers before, allergic to vague answers, and used him to stress-test a real discovery call.
He pushed on ROI. On timeline. On rate. On revision policy.
Slide through to see how it went.
This is genuinely useful. Not as a toy, as a rehearsal tool. You find the gaps in your pitch before a real client does.
What it's good at: stays in character under pressure, generates objections you hadn't thought of, forces you to articulate your value out loud.
Where it breaks: gets agreeable too fast if you don't push back, no memory across sessions.
Want to run your own discovery call with Jake?
👉 https://character.ai/chat/mcniunEMMbgyGf4KfmMSI302PTb2TdPgJ2dqAhTBg3Y
What would you use a character like this for? Drop it below.
This is brilliant! Sometimes I don’t feel I articulate my value well enough so I’m going to check this out
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