Open your notes and write a 5-item pre-publish checklist for any AI-assisted mini-app or shareable demo: (1) secrets in client? (2) public URL scope (3) data collected (4) cost/spend cap (5) human go-live. Mark each one Y/N/unknown for your last toy project. You're done when you've named the single weakest gate.
How-to · BLD · BLD.1
Chat → publish is not a free pass
Describe-and-deploy AI tools make shipping a link trivial — still run secrets, domain, and human-gate checks before anything is public.
Worked example
Chat-to-publish tools (like Grok Build or App Deployer style products) can turn a prompt into a live URL in minutes. That's real leverage for using AI at work — and a real blast radius too. Before you publish: no API keys in client code, no client PII in demos, know exactly who can hit that URL, and keep a human owning go-live. Speed without a gate is just faster regret.