AI Agents or Manual Coding: How would you build a SaaS MVP today?
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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?
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I would say mix of both;
I would probably optimize the MVP for learning rather than elegance. If the idea gets traction thats when I would spend the time making the foundation cleaner.