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7/18/2026
The original title is: "A trust-boundary framework for non-technical founders using AI coding agents"
Original: The Real App-Building Kit for Non-Technical Founders: Trustworthy AI-Powered Development
Short summary
A practical guide for non-technical founders using AI coding agents like Claude Code and Cursor to build apps. It defines a trust boundary taxonomy of tasks agents can do unsupervised versus those requiring founder review, and prescribes machine-readable conventions (CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules) and a prompt library to keep agents on safe rails. The core insight: the hard part isn't the first commit, it's maintaining trust and code quality weeks in.
- •Defines which coding-agent tasks are safe unsupervised vs. require founder review (auth, billing, deployment always need human eyes)
- •Recommends machine-readable convention files (CLAUDE.md, .cursorrules) so agents follow project rails without human hand-holding
- •Proposes a named prompt library so non-technical founders invoke tested patterns instead of writing ad-hoc prompts
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