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The AI merged straight to main and my production app broke for every user

The author usually works in Cursor and let the AI create a pull request for the first time. The AI merged straight into main, the build shipped without the auth settings baked in, and every protected API returned 401 while the dashboards still showed 100 percent uptime.

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How it works

  1. Hands the AI a pull request task
  2. The AI targets main and it merges
  3. Auto deploy ships a build missing its auth settings
  4. Users find every protected API returns 401
  5. The author rebuilds with the right settings and adds branch and deploy gates

Why it’s worth knowing

Every health check stayed green during the outage. The only alarm was a user saying the app did not work.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on zenn.dev. See the original ↗

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