The original title is: "GPT-5.6 in Codex: the next bottleneck is launch, not code"

Short summary

The article argues that as AI coding agents like GPT-5.6 Codex produce better demos faster, the real bottleneck shifts from code generation to production launch infrastructure—auth, user-scoped data, usage billing, and payment handling. It provides a practical checklist for evaluating whether an agent-built app is ready for real users, covering user journeys, spend tracking, refunds, and support trails. The author promotes SettleMesh as a launch-layer solution that handles deploy, billing, and payments for agent-built apps regardless of which coding tool produced them.

• •AI coding agents excel at demos but the bottleneck is launch infrastructure: auth, billing, usage ledgers, and payment handling
• •Provides a 9-question checklist to evaluate demo-to-production readiness covering user journeys, spend tracking, and support trails
• •Promotes SettleMesh as a model-agnostic launch layer for turning agent-built apps into paid public products

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