Audit what your AI builder actually shipped - shippingszn launch readiness

Your AI builder is a fast, productive contractor who occasionally lies. It will tell you 'done!' when something is actually mocked, stubbed, hardcoded, or half-built. Before you launch you need to do a literal walkthrough of your codebase looking for the patterns AI builders ship by accident.

Vibe-coded apps go live with placeholder users called 'John Doe', mock API responses returning the same fake data every time, TODO comments inside real flows, debug logs leaking sensitive info, and functions that return constants instead of doing the thing. None of that explodes loudly — it just quietly makes your app a lie until a real user notices.

The shippingszn CLI includes automated checks for this launch-readiness control.

The Launch Fix Kit keeps scan-specific findings, file and line evidence, AI-builder punch-list tasks, and verification steps tied to the paid report.

In your editor, do a project-wide search (Cmd+Shift+F or your platform's search) one string at a time: TODO, FIXME, XXX, HACK, mock, dummy, placeholder, lorem, fake, sample, stub.
For each hit, decide: real work to finish, or leftover scaffolding to delete.
Search for hardcoded test data: test@example.com, john.doe, jane.doe, 555-1234, password123. Anything that smells synthetic shouldn't be in production code.
Open an incognito window and use your app as a brand new user. Sign up. Do the main thing. Does data actually save somewhere real, or are you looking at the same fake response every time?
Pick 3 random functions and ask your AI builder: 'walk me through what this does line by line in plain English.' If the explanation is fuzzy or doesn't match what you thought it does, that's a bug waiting.

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Canonical URL: https://shippingszn.com/i/ai-audit/