I Let Claude Choose My Tech Stack for 6 Months. Here’s What I Learned the Hard Way.

For the last 6 months, I was in flow state. Every project I touched - from small side hustles to my Final Year Bachelor’s Project - was built with AI assistance. I’d open Cursor, fire up Claude Sonnet, and let the magic happen. Why waste time thinking about architecture when the AI can just write the code? Why argue over whether to use PostgreSQL or MongoDB when Claude can decide? I was shipping features faster than ever. My GitHub looked like a construction site at 3 AM - messy, but moving. I t