The original title is: "We let an AI write code inside our no-code platform. Generating it was the easy part."

Short summary

A no-code platform team shares lessons from letting AI generate custom code sections within their app builder. The hard part isn't generation—it's ensuring the output remains secure, maintainable, and integrated long after the prompt. They enforce narrow capability surfaces, steer models away from server-side assumptions, and run generate-validate-correct loops to ensure code survives over time.

• •AI code generation is easy; making it fit and survive in a real app is the hard part
• •Narrow, declared capability surfaces ensure longevity over broad open access
• •Generate-validate-correct loops separate 'looks like it works' from 'it installs'

Generated with AI, which can make mistakes.