Builder Series 01: How a Solo Founder Ships Her Entire Product and Catches AI Slop

Catherine isn't a coder or a designer, but she designed, built, and shipped her entire product—Annsa—solo. Her first Figma Make prototype turned out to be AI slop, so she rebuilt every component by hand, eight to ten options at a time, before ever touching Claude Code. Now she splits real work across four models by job—Claude for context, Codex for visuals, Grok for critique, Cursor for end-to-end…