01
The codebase has grown over months of Cursor sessions, and three different parts of it solve the same problem three different ways.
02
Nobody, including whoever's been driving Cursor, can fully explain why a given piece was built the way it was.
03
Real users have arrived and things are slowing down or falling over.
04
An investor or client just asked for a technical due-diligence review, and you don't know what to show them.
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The AI tool keeps “fixing” things by breaking other things.
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You've been quoted a five-figure rebuild, and the people quoting it made you feel foolish for asking.