The eject button is a myth: what owning an AI-built app really takes
AI can hand you a working prototype in a weekend. Screens render, buttons respond, data appears. It feels like the app is ninety percent done and the last step is pressing an eject button that drops you into clean, owned production code.
That button does not exist. There is no single export that converts generated output into an app you can run, update, and answer for. What exists instead is a slower handoff: six systems you need to read, name, and take responsibility for before the app is really yours. Teams that plan for that handoff ship. Teams that wait for the button rewrite.
The confusion is understandable because the old vocabulary still floats around. Expo used to talk about managed versus bare workflows and ejecting from one to the other.
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