No-code platforms and AI app builders have made it possible for a non-technical founder to ship a working product in a weekend. Visual app builders, spreadsheet-as-database tools, drag-and-drop workflow platforms, AI code generators. The tools are genuinely good at what they do — validating an idea with real users before writing a line of production code. This is a net positive. More people building more things, faster. The problem starts when the validation tool becomes the production foundatio