18 Months of Code, Gone. Here's What We Learned.

A startup founder shares lessons from scrapping 18 months of code at their QA automation company Autonoma. Key takeaways include the cost of skipping tests early on (leading to bugs and a lost client), a detailed critique of Next.js Server Actions (sequential global execution, poor observability, security footguns, errors as flow control, and 8GB RAM containers), and the decision to rewrite using React with tRPC, a Hono backend, and Argo for Kubernetes-native workflow orchestration instead of Temporal or similar tools.