One thing I’ve realised on my journey so far…
Even with AI, Cursor, vibe coding, and modern tooling… building a real product is still hard. People online sometimes make it sound like you can casually prompt your way into production-grade systems overnight, but once you start dealing with: - architecture, - validation, - edge cases, - workflow coordination, - reliability, - testing, - approvals, - and keeping everything maintainable… you realise very quickly why experienced developers are valuable. BuilderCore V1 took weeks of intense work just to reach a controlled foundation stage — and that’s with AI assistance accelerating parts of the process. Honestly, massive respect to developers who were building complex systems before modern AI tooling even existed. AI can massively increase leverage, but it doesn’t magically eliminate engineering difficulty or system complexity.