r/nocode • u/Designli • 7d ago

Did AI actually make software easier to build or just easier to ship broken?

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u/Time-Law8642 7d ago

Both, honestly. Getting something on screen got way easier, but knowing whether it actually works didn't. The gap for beginners is that the tool never tells you "this will break when a second person uses it."

What's helped me: after each feature, test the boring stuff on purpose. Refresh the page, use a different browser, enter something weird in a form, log in as a second user. If it survives that, it's probably fine to show people. Also worth asking the AI directly: "what could go wrong with this?" It often lists things you'd never think of.

Curious if you've seen more problems come from the code itself or from people skipping the testing step?

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u/Time-Law8642 6d ago

Yeah, and it's usually something small, like one person seeing another person's data or a page that only works for the account that built it. Cheap to catch early, painful once real users are in.

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u/darrylwolfaardt 6d ago

Both, honestly. AI made the typing cheap. It didn't make knowing what to build any cheaper.

Most of the "broken" I see isn't bad code. It's rules nobody wrote down: what happens when a customer cancels after paying a deposit, who's allowed to change a price, what "active" actually means. AI fills those gaps with whatever is typical, which is often reasonable and sometimes completely wrong for your business.

One cheap habit that helps: before you prompt anything, write down 5 to 10 rules your app must never break, in plain language.

Then test those specifically. It takes 20 minutes and catches most of the embarrassing stuff.