Six months ago, a prompt and an afternoon were enough to stand up a working demo. Investors loved it, the board loved it, and real users started signing up. Now that same app is the thing your team is most afraid to touch. A small feature request turns into a week of archaeology. A routine deploy takes down a feature nobody changed. And the engineer who can explain how any of it works is the one person you cannot afford to lose.
Six months ago, a prompt and an afternoon were enough to stand up a working demo. Investors loved it, the board loved it, and real users started signing up. Now that same app is the thing your team is most afraid to touch. A small feature request turns into a week of archaeology. A routine deploy takes down a feature nobody changed. And the engineer who can explain how any of it works is the one person you cannot afford to lose.
