When I started building with AI shipping features was fast and fun because the codebase was tiny.
But now that the project has grown every simple edit risks breaking something completely unrelated that I didn't write myself. Debugging code you didn't manually craft line by line is ten times harder than building it in the first place.
AI lowers the barrier to build but it definitely raises the headache of maintaining it long term.
How are you keeping your sanity and code structure stable as your app grows?
We recently checked our helpdesk logs and found that a single free user opened over 30 tickets in under a month asking for custom walkthroughs and direct setup help. After our engineers spent hours fixing their workflows, they straight up refused to upgrade to a $20/mo plan because they got everything for free. It made us realize we were running an unpaid agency. If you run a SaaS, do you cut off manual support for free users entirely, or just route them to slow email queues and docs?
