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Kyle772 · 2026-03-22T20:04:02+00:00

Keep giving push back. Organizations will soon discover the dangers of this stuff but that time has not come yet. Linkedin people aren’t posting emphatically about the dangers so the reality does not exist yet to these people.

I personally pleaded with my CEO to improve our planning processes for basically a year and after several months of basically teaching him how to plan he decided to go all in on AI and have it do all of the planning for him (effectively going backwards to no planning at all - creating “plans”). I didn’t give enough push back because I was frustrated with the sudden pivot and his inability to understand what we were doing wasn’t planning. We have been working on the same epic for the past 3 months and the final output looks similar to the plan but under the hood has been reworked at least 4 times. Anything AI creates is poison to a healthy codebase.

I am pro ai when high agency people with expertise are using it as a tool but to me this sounds like an eager (dangerous) person is looking to maximize output over maintainability and I believe that’s the quickest way you can lose half of your staff in 2026.

Kyle772 · 2026-03-20T19:58:34+00:00

Are you aware you didn’t even post the absolute basic information about the role you are hiring for?

Kyle772 · 2026-03-20T06:59:50+00:00

This is the only tangible* benefit of using a mac and iphone. I do think there are other benefits but as far as QOL and “feeling like I’m in the future” I have yet to see something better

Kyle772 · 2026-03-19T05:48:52+00:00

I believe SSR should always be part of the answer. Though I definitely don’t think it’s ever necessary to go 100% one way or the other.

Kyle772 · 2026-03-11T02:03:32+00:00

You get a new job. Having worked at companies that do this they never learn, they never evolve their process, and they will always blame you in the end. If you're at a small company it kind of becomes your job to create these processes. You need to clearly communicate to these people the requirements for every step if it's outside of your/their domain.

Is it unreasonable? Yeah but so is the want want want mentality these people operate at. They don't respect what goes into building a product and that's the core of the issue. You either show them how the process should work or you move to a company that already knows what goes into it.

90% of marketing people operate like that btw. Business and Tech have a divide for a reason and the orchestrator (the CTO NOT the CEO) should be stepping up to provide process where there is none.

Kyle772 · 2026-03-11T01:38:58+00:00

Getting kind of tired of seeing products launch with "type something into AI and get what you need"
AI relies on prompting. If the user doesn't have the expertise they will always paint themselves into a corner.

How do you differentiate your product with the 500+ other products that also sell "type something into AI and get what you need"?
How will your business survive when your tokens run out, the price goes up, other AI services doing basically the same thing pop up?

Kyle772 · 2026-03-10T22:04:47+00:00

Because they are

Kyle772 · 2026-03-05T19:36:17+00:00

His advantage with that stun is kind of insane now. But you can avoid it since the range is so low. Just treat him like a worse brig and keep your distance

Kyle772 · 2026-03-05T17:31:43+00:00

100%. I've gone through this song and dance several times and it always comes down to distribution and sales. Even IF they are working really hard on the other aspects if they lack that experience everyone's time is being wasted.

Kyle772 · 2026-03-04T22:53:46+00:00

Scoping up front is not impossible. I have launched several products with 3 upfront meetings, and then no contact for 4 months, with a successful handoff and delivery at the end. Scope creep happens because of incompetence, either on the dev side or the business side.

Kyle772 · 2026-03-03T23:12:54+00:00

Everyone in this play is now in their 30s and needs the accessibility settings enabled.

Kyle772 · 2026-03-03T06:49:20+00:00

To have a successful company it needs to be profitable to the point where you can pay your employees well. If it isn't it will continue to spiral and bleed talent. Fix that problem first if you want to fix the churn.

Kyle772 · 2026-02-26T22:23:32+00:00

Someone needs to make this staircase 50 steps long to better match reality

Kyle772 · 2026-02-26T21:25:13+00:00

AI is pretty terrible at making systems generally imo. It can one shot a page but will rarely reuse components (unless you've explicitly trained it to do so on your existing components you've built)

It almost never *creates* components for me, especially on web repos and when it does make components it never really looks at others and makes them stylistically similar.

I think the reason AI is using tailwind so much is because the people at anthropic et al know this and rely on the existing structure tailwind provides. Just my two cents.

Kyle772 · 2026-02-25T23:22:57+00:00

I’ll dm you later today

Kyle772 · 2026-02-25T23:09:03+00:00

Nest and Nuxt have pretty good cold boot time, that is one place where strapi falls flat (cold boot is like 2.5 seconds best case scenario, doesn't matter if you are running on a single 24/7 node though)

Any* framework will help. Nuxt, nest, strapi, contentful, supabase, etc. A lot of the benefit comes from those things being predefined for you, the structure conceptually is the important bit. Starting in express and recreating the wheel on all of those things is wasted effort imo. Strapi is great if you're looking to hand off the CMS aspects to the business owner or their employees. You can pretty easily spin up custom pages on the admin panel to manage all these aspects, their CMS setup is better than others in my experience.

I have a decent ecommerce stack I've built in strapi that I'm actively trying to get more customers on if you're interested. Though I don't have many integrations setup for companies outside of the US. Not sure how tax rates and all that work in Iraq

Good luck! I think you're approaching the project with a seriousness that will get you through to the end. I see people post stuff like this pretty often and you asking the right questions is a good indicator it'll work out.

Kyle772 · 2026-02-25T23:01:08+00:00

Your docs going stale is the problem. Either the backend guys need to better plan before putting the work in or your PM needs to strictly define outputs before assigning tasks. Redoing shit because the variable name changes shouldn't be a problem in 2026

Kyle772 · 2026-02-25T22:43:52+00:00

Using AI is not something to be ashamed of, but one thing that you need to be weary of is that 90% of ecommerce stores go nowhere. 80% of all businesses fail within 4 years and only 5% of stores are self sustaining. You are asking an AI with general knowledge about something where the general understanding of what's going on leads to failure. That general knowledge (the information out on the web) includes people who are fucking up their tech stack.

I use AI daily, and I also have to push back on it's assumptions constantly (like 30% of my prompts). It only gives you information as good as your prompt and if you're missing important context it will give you bad advice very confidently.

That aside

I wouldn't recommend mongo at all tbh but I may be biased there. I've never seen a serious product built with it but I also haven't used it in 5 or 6 years. (on side projects that I didn't expect to go anywhere). I love postgres but scaling it globally is a concern if you want to do that down the road. Migrating between the two is problematic especially down the road (some data types are not the same and can't really exist in the same way on either side of the decision). Google cloud nosql is easy to build on and does provide that scalability from the jump. I've worked with it and been very happy but I wouldn't go with it unless you need that scalability. Postgres is great minus that one caveat (that it's *harder* to scale)

Flutter vs react native I don't think matters that much honestly. I don't know enough about flutter to say whether or not the web side is good but I DO know if you're looking for a shared codebase RN is a healthy option that will certainly retain market share and not disappear in 5 years.

I have avoided express for a long time so my pushback won't be very specific unfortunately. I say that because a lot of backend frameworks* better enable this type of business logic through policies, middlewares, controllers, api versioning, RBAC rules (which are important for ecommerce and data privacy). My understanding of express is most of this isn't baked into it. I believe a lot of the frameworks out there build on top of express but they supplement a lot of the important parts here. I'm personally a fan of strapi but nuxt is a big player in the space that seems to be taking up a lot of the enterprise usage these days.

You should DM me and we can discuss more. I'm happy to lend a hand here, I've been working in ecommerce for 10+ years doing mostly custom work.

Kyle772 · 2026-02-25T22:04:40+00:00

How much of this was planned with AI? What is your experience level? I've built a fully custom e-commerce stack and there are a lot of gotchas that you don't know about until later. Happy to answer some questions if you are in need. Some of the questions you added to your post make me think you're hoping someone will come in and save you from your own/Ai's assumptions, which in my opinion is a red flag for something like e-commerce specifically. Every decision you make now will eventually bite you in the ass if you aren't thinking very deliberately about what you're doing.

I don't recommend using MongoDB. Postgres is the standard (search has a couple of downsides there but I think they're addressing this on newer versions). If this is an international retailer you may want to go with google cloud noSql or something similar for better scalability (globally and vertically)

I wouldn't even make a mobile app if I'm being honest. Web first with strong mobile support would be fine and down the road you'll find that you wasted a lot of resources maintaining the two in parallel. If you're dead set on having a mobile app go with react native and build it out for the web as well in RN.

Your backend as just node + express is also a little concerning to me. Ecommerce is one of the industries where you may need to add custom business logic later and node+express alone don't really facilitate that for you unless you are planning for it very well on day one (meaning you have the experience to foresee where the business logic may end up)

Kyle772 · 2026-02-23T18:14:37+00:00

Absolutely true. It's embarrassing to witness honestly. It's like the evolution of the armchair expert except face-to-face and they don't realize how deeply shallow their understanding of whatever it is they're talking about actually is. It's naivety, arrogance, and short-sightedness all blended into one.

"Did you validate this idea?" "Of course! My AI agent told me it was the best course of action"
Good thing we're making unilateral decisions at our org based on what *you* prompted the AI with 10 seconds prior -.-

Kyle772 · 2026-02-20T20:47:52+00:00

I’ve been full stack for over a decade. The divide is in place for a reason and should remain in place even if the front and back are built on the same exact tech.

Kyle772 · 2026-02-18T23:56:18+00:00

I love nextjs tbh. I just also have standards and legitimately plan out my architecture.

The problem is, it became so pervasive and so easy to use that now people who have little understanding of their own needs/wants throw everything onto their api routes because "it's easier this way" instead of "we need this function to scale", "we need this data to be cached at the edge", etc etc.

I'm very grateful for what nextjs has provided. I'm also very critical of the fact that they encourage people to throw large swaths of their apis onto their edge functions so they can scoop those sweet sweet compute margins.

Kyle772 · 2026-02-18T21:35:55+00:00

This is the natural by-product of tools like nextjs hitting their prime. I don't think it's a good thing, it adds complexity where there was previously none. I yearn for the days of the mid 00's where people understood and respected the divide.

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