Many ?random bugs? are really authority conflicts: the interface, the database, and the AI instructions each believe they own the same decision.
A source of truth is the place the product trusts when two parts of the system disagree. If the UI says a case is ready, the database says it is blocked, and a prompt says to continue anyway, the app does not have one governing answer.
AI-built products often spread one decision across multiple surfaces. Each surface can look reasonable alone while the whole product becomes unpredictable.
Start with the decision, not the folder tree. Name what must remain true, list every surface that can change it, and decide which record or workflow has the authority to speak for the product. Everything else becomes a projection, proposal, or implementation detail.
A trustworthy recovery does not treat the entire codebase as sacred or disposable. It preserves what still carries the right product behavior, rebuilds what cannot be trusted, and defers features that would widen the first working version before its center is stable.
Move from the failure pattern to a real recovery example before opening your own case.
AI-built apps rarely fail because one prompt was bad. They fail because product truth, code truth, and the build workflow split apart.
Read nextGuideThe safest next move is rarely another feature. First separate what still carries product truth from what only carries implementation noise.
Read nextCase studyDeskSnap already had working functionality, but new features repeatedly interfered with existing systems because the product lacked one governing architecture.
Read nextIf this failure pattern looks familiar, move into the Case Room and bound the app before another coding session drifts it further.
Understand how Driftbreak moves from intake to package without pretending the case is already clear.
Review what the architecture, blueprint, workflow, and coding sessions actually look like.
Start a case once you want the bounded architecture and implementation handoff for your own app.
