About six months ago, I was excited about shipping features quickly using AI-assisted development. We moved fast, iterated constantly, and hit milestones I would’ve called impossible a year earlier.
Then I tried onboarding a new developer last month. The codebase was a maze. Not because we lacked skill—we have good developers—but because the AI made it too easy to add layers without cleaning up what was underneath.
We’ve now started a conversation about rewriting our core modules the old way: slower, more deliberate, with stricter code review. It’s humbling to admit, but sometimes fast feels expensive in retrospect.
This got me thinking about whether there’s actually a market for tools that help small teams manage code quality when everyone’s using AI. Something lighter than enterprise solutions, that actually fits a micro SaaS or one-person company workflow.
Has anyone tried building (or buying) something in this space? Curious if the pain point is widespread enough to be a real opportunity, or if it’s just us being undisciplined.