Help — 8 documented fixes
Common problems I solve.
AI coding tools get you most of the way there. These are the problems where they consistently fall short, and where I step in.
01 — The list
- 01 Add Authentication Your AI tool produced a login form, maybe even JWT tokens. But authentication is the one area where 'looks like it works' can cost you everything. Improperly stored tokens, missing CSRF protection, and broken session handling leave your users' data exposed. ChatGPT Cursor Claude Bolt
- 02 Deploy Your AI-Built App You built something real with AI. It runs perfectly in development. But every time you try to deploy, something breaks: build errors, blank pages, API calls that suddenly fail. Getting from localhost to production is where a lot of AI-generated code falls down. ChatGPT Cursor Bolt Lovable
- 03 Fix Your Bolt Project Bolt generated a full-stack application that looks impressively finished. It has pages, auth, a database schema, API endpoints. But click through it carefully and you'll find placeholder logic, mock data standing in for real queries, and auth flows that don't actually protect anything. Bolt
- 04 Fix Your Cursor Project You used Cursor to build something ambitious. Each file looked right when it was generated. But the app crashes, types don't match across files, and every fix you ask Cursor to make seems to break something else. You're stuck in a loop. Cursor
- 05 Fix Your Lovable Project Lovable connected your app to a real Supabase database and it worked, every time you clicked through it. But you were the only person using it. Now that it's live, or about to be, things break in ways that are harder to explain: logins that don't protect the right data, features that fail for real visitors, a database you're no longer sure is private. That's fixable, and it's more common than you'd think. Lovable
- 06 Fix Stripe Integration It looked like it worked in test mode. Maybe you even processed a real payment. But failed webhooks, missing idempotency, and ignored SCA requirements mean you're leaking revenue and heading toward chargebacks you can't win. ChatGPT Cursor Claude Copilot
- 07 Fix Your v0 Project v0 gave you a pixel-perfect UI that impressed everyone you showed it to. Then you tried to make it do something real. The data is hardcoded, buttons don't connect to anything, and there's no backend. The gap between 'looks like an app' and 'is an app' is wider than you expected. v0
- 08 Is My AI Code Safe? AI coding tools are good at writing code that runs. Whether that code is safe to launch is a different question, and you can't answer it by using the app: the gaps don't show up until someone goes looking for them. Most AI-built apps share a handful of common security gaps. A review tells you exactly which ones you have. ChatGPT Cursor Claude Bolt
02 — Something else broken?
Different problem?
If AI generated it, I can probably fix it. Tell me what's broken and I'll tell you what it takes.
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