u/OilElectronic6302

Curious what people’s real process looks like once an app has users, logins, payments, customer data, etc.
Not the ideal checklist. What do you personally do?

Do you have Claude/Codex review the whole repo in a fresh context?

Use a different model from the one that wrote the feature?

Run security scanners?

Test the live app separately from the code?
Have another developer look at it?
Pay someone to review it?

Or do you mostly keep shipping until something gives you a reason to dig deeper?

I’ve seen people use everything from one-agent self-review to multiple models + scanners + a human review, so I’m curious where people here have landed.

What’s the point where you personally feel comfortable saying, “Yeah, I’d put real users through this”?

Been thinking about this after reading a bunch of stories from people who shipped AI-built apps.
not necessarily bugs either.

I’ve seen stuff where the app built fine and tests passed, but then real usage exposed something nobody was checking.

Analytics couldn’t tell what users were doing. a third party changed part of a URL. the code correctly implemented an assumption that turned out to be wrong. users understood a feature completely differently than the person who built it.

If you’ve shipped something built with Claude/Cursor/Lovable/Bolt/etc, what surprised you after real people started using it?

Especially curious about things your normal code review or testing didn’t catch.

How did you eventually figure out what was wrong?

I'm curious about people who have actually gotten past the prototype stage and put something AI-assisted in front of real users.

Before you shipped, did you have Claude/Cursor/etc. review the app, test it, or tell you it was ready?

And then once people actually started using it, what happened?

I'm especially curious about stuff you didn't catch yourself.

What was the first issue that surprised you?

And what eventually caught it: a user, logs, your AI agent, another tool, or a human review?

Not looking for "vibe coding good/bad." I'm trying to understand what the workflow actually looks like once an app leaves your laptop.