February 18, 2026

What I Learned by Failing to Build My Fitness App with AI Agents

Where AI coding agents shine, where they break, and the patterns that kept me shipping.

The promise vs. reality

Agents accelerate scaffolding
They struggle with long context
Reliability needs structure

Takeaways

Break work into vertical slices
Write contracts (types) first
Test early, test often

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