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AI mockup or production : the choice you should be asked to make

Most SMB AI repos are dead mockups. Here is how to avoid signing one more.

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Author : Sinclaire Mbounda, Co-CEO·Published on June 4, 2026·4 min read

AI mockups never last. Here is what ten years in the industry taught us.

The mockup ends up in a repo that never deploys. The code sleeps, the invoice is paid, the team learned "it worked on my laptop". Three months later, no one knows how to restart the service — and your company's trust in AI just dropped a notch.

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