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r/ClaudeAI by coffeebeanie24 Analyzed

Am I going in too deep?

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I’m curious if anyone here has been in a similar situation and can sanity check me. I run an iOS app that’s making a few thousand dollars a month right now. Not life changing money, but enough that it feels real and I care about not messing it up. The part that’s stressing me out a bit is that I’m not a developer and I don’t really understand the codebase in a traditional sense. I understand the product extremely well. What the app should do, how users move through it, what data should be saved, what a “good” or “bad” experience looks like. But most of the actual implementation has been built with AI (Claude), with me directing features, reviewing behavior, and approving changes without being able to read the code and instantly know if something is safe or not. At first this felt amazing. I could move fast, ideas turned into working features, and everything felt manageable. As the app has grown, though, there’s more backend logic, syncing, auth, failure cases, offline behavior, etc. I find myself trusting AI explanations a lot and occasionally feeling uneasy about how much I don’t know. To be clear, I’m not just shipping blindly. I push back, freeze scope, and try to focus only on things that actually affect users, data loss, or trust. But I still can’t open a file and confidently say “yes, this is correct” the way a real engineer could. I guess my question is: Is this reckless long term? Or is this just what solo development looks like now if you’re disciplined about scope and decision making?

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