Bailey Richardson

Enforcement on 30 September hits seven stores in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. Not sideloading, not other stores. But registration is bound to your app signing key, and Google's FAQ says a lost one can't be recovered.

There's a version of this story going around that says Android is closing. Sideloading is dead, the open platform is over, verify or disappear. I went and read Google's own developer verification pages this week, because Murror ships on Android and I wanted to know what I actually had to do before the end of the month. The docs say something narrower than the panic, and in one specific place something worse.

Start with what happens on 30 September.

Enforcement begins for users installing from participating stores Google Play, HONOR App Market, OPPO App Market, Galaxy Store, Palm Store, V-Appstore and GetApps in Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand, on certified devices running Android 7 or higher. If you haven't verified your identity and registered your apps by then, they're blocked from installation for users in those regions.

Honestly, looking at the current state of AI coding agents, building a simple SaaS MVP from scratch feels like reinventing the wheel. You can literally spin up a working prototype over the weekend.

But I keep thinking about the hangover part: technical debt, messy code structures, and the pain of scaling it later.

If you were starting a new project this week, would you actually trust an AI agent to ship the whole MVP just to test the market quickly? Or would you still write it manually to keep the architecture clean?

We build agents all day, and the thing I keep noticing is that they almost never fail in the middle. They fail at the very last step, when something has to happen in the real world.
Ours kept dying in the same spot: a signup form that texts a six-digit code. Everything up to that point ran fine, and then it just sat there waiting for a human to go and read a text message.
I'm curious what everyone else's version of this is. Not the thing your agent does badly - the thing it does perfectly, right up until it has to stop and hand it back to you.
Verification codes? A booking that only happens by phone? A supplier who answers email once a week? Something that needs an actual human voice on the other end?
Mostly I want to know whether the wall sits in the same place for everyone, or whether it moves depending on what you're building.