Prototype to Production: AI App Deployment Checklist

Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:00:00 +0800

You shipped an AI-generated app in 20 minutes. The demo looked great. Your stakeholders were impressed.

Then reality hit.

The app crashed under 50 concurrent users. A security scan found 12 vulnerabilities. There were zero tests, zero logs, and zero alerts. When it went down at 2 AM, nobody knew until customers started complaining on Twitter.

Building the prototype was 10% of the work. The other 90% is what separates a demo from a product.

Stanford CS146S Deep Dive (5): From Prototype to Production — The Full AI App Lifecycle

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 09:00:00 +0800

This is Part 5 (the finale) of the “Stanford Vibe Coding Course Deep Dive” series. See the series navigation at the bottom.

“Build an app with one prompt” — that’s probably the most eye-catching selling point of Vibe Coding.

The Week 8 guest was Gaspar Garcia, Head of AI Research at Vercel. He demonstrated live how AI can generate a complete web application from a single prompt — frontend, backend, database, deployment — all in one shot.

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Prototype to Production: AI App Deployment Checklist

Stanford CS146S Deep Dive (5): From Prototype to Production — The Full AI App Lifecycle