Essays and field notes on software, from the middle of the thing.https://beyond-the-tutorial.com/https://beyond-the-tutorial.com/blog/2026-04-19-ai-didn-t-build-my-app-i-built-it-by-knowing-when-ai-was-wrong/https://beyond-the-tutorial.com/blog/2026-04-19-ai-didn-t-build-my-app-i-built-it-by-knowing-when-ai-was-wrong/I used AI to migrate a Python app to a cloud stack I'd never touched: FastAPI, Next.js, and 4 managed services. It worked, but not the way most people imagine. This is the honest version, including the failures, the silent bugs, and why 30 years of engineering judgment mattered more than the AI that wrote the code.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:21:00 GMT