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Why vibe coded apps break in production: data isolation failures, auth holes, secrets in code, missing observability. 81% of enterprises report AI code production issues. Checklist to fix before it's too late.

Patterns from 726 mentoring sessions: why some engineers reach lead in 16 months while others struggle after a decade, how tech debt silently kills products, and why observability is the most overlooked growth lever.

Real system design is nothing like a whiteboard interview. Trade-off decisions, when to scale (and when not to), monolith vs microservices, how architecture decisions become cost decisions, and what nobody teaches you about designing production systems.

How ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and AI tools get database design wrong: no indexing strategy, missing foreign keys, wrong data types, no migration plan, localStorage as a database. 10 common database schema mistakes in AI-generated code and why database design is driven by access patterns, not entity relationships.