AnchorStack Articles
Writing on AI engineering
and production-ready software.
Deep dives on LLM cost, reliability, and building software that holds up when it matters.
Lovable App Production Readiness: What to Check Before You Go Live
Lovable generates working apps. Production readiness is something else. Seven categories that cover the gaps between what Lovable builds and what real users require — with specific checks for each.
Cursor App Cleanup: What to Fix Before You Ship
Cursor modifies existing codebases rather than generating apps from scratch. Its failure modes are different from generative tools — and they compound silently across sessions. Five categories, the checks that catch the most problems, and what good looks like for each.
Free Production Risk Audit for AI-Built Apps
Get a free production risk audit for a working or near-working AI-built app. AnchorStack checks security, reliability, code quality, deployment risk, and remediation priorities.
Fix Vibe-Coded Apps Before They Break
AnchorStack helps founders diagnose and stabilize vibe-coded apps built with AI tools before production risks become customer-facing failures.
AI-Built App Production Readiness Checklist
AI tools optimise for the happy path. Production is everything else. Ten categories, the questions I ask on every review, and what good looks like for each one.
The Cost of Being Polite: Token Consumption in LLMs
Does saying please to an AI model change its answers? I ran 452 trials across three models to find out and the real cost driver was not what I expected.
Is Your AI-Built App Ready for Production?
AnchorStack audits the production risk in AI-built apps — free.