Retention, product decisions, and what actually changes when you build with AI. Written from what I've run, not what I've read.
You bought the licenses and sent the memo. Six months later nothing has changed. The resistance isn't stubbornness — it's self-preservation, and it's rational.
Analytics record events. The reason someone leaves is never an event. What I learned losing 80% of my customers and only finding out why afterwards.
253 pull requests, 670 commits, and about 150,000 lines of code in 171 days — solo, on a live product with paying customers. Here's what worked, what took seven attempts, and where I still needed t...