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You can vibe code a demo, but what about a product?

Lessons from shipping generative AI products to production.

By Ivy Si

June 23, 2026

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

Key takeaways:

  • Anyone can vibe code a demo. Almost no one is ready for production. Infrastructure, safety, compliance, and eval are where most teams quietly fail.
  • Your inference bill will make or break you.
  • The model is the easy part. Product-market fit, compliance, and quality eval all have to be built by humans.

Foundation generative AI models are powerful and have made creating demos extremely easy. Many might assume that building on these generative AI models is trivial, and that wrapper applications are low-hanging fruit – anyone can ship generative AI products.

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