The Short Version
- An AI-vibecoded screen is maybe twenty percent of a real system; the durable data model, accounts, permissions, and integrations are the unseen eighty percent.
- If your app forgets everything on refresh or only works on the laptop it was built on, you have a prototype, not a system.
- Grafting a real data layer and security onto someone else's generated frontend is often more work and more fragile than building it properly.
- Power Apps on Dataverse can deliver a real MVP with the data model, permissions, and storage handled for you before you graduate to a heavier build.
Bottom line: AI can help you build a durable data model, role-based access, and a single source of truth, but it can't skip the unglamorous eighty percent that makes a prototype a system.
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