The non scalability issue

People argue about scalability when they see products built with AI-assisted development. They imagine what happens when the userbase grows or the codebase expands i.ez technical debt piling up.

Many products built this way solve specific problems for specific people. A tool that helps a company process their invoices. A system that generates reports for a particular team. An interface that automates one workflow that’s been eating up someone’s time.

When you build something to solve an actual problem you have right now, the constraints are already built in. You know the scope. You know the users. You know what “done” looks like.

The scalability critique applies to products trying to be everything to everyone.