AI agents helped me build faster, but made the workflow harder to manage

Summary

AI coding agents made me faster, but they also made my workflow messier. I’ve been building a real app with them and the biggest lessons were not only about prompting. I had to learn a lot around API integration, Cloudflare, storage, scaling costs, and why moving from a web app to Electron can make sense when the product needs local files, terminals, and a desktop workflow. Cloudflare was a good example. At first I saw it as “DNS and protection”, but while building I started to understand the bi

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