The lack of lockfiles is wild. Every other package manager figured this out years ago.

Has anyone been bitten by a breaking change from an action update mid-pipeline?

Mid-pipeline? No, but midday, oh yeah.

This resonates. I'm building a React Native app and the biggest friction with AI coding tools is re-explaining context every time.

How does Nia handle project-specific patterns? Like if I always use a certain folder structure or naming convention, does it learn that?

Nia is focused on external context rather than learning the patterns inside your own codebase. Cursor and IDE-native tools are better for local project structure today. Where Nia helps is when the agent needs ground truth from outside your repo. For example, you can index React Native docs, libraries you depend on, API references or Stack for your backend and let the agent search and validate against those sources directly instead of losing context between prompts.

The cost of building "something" has dropped 90%. The cost of building "something good" has maybe dropped 30%.

The gap between a demo and a product is still enormous.