Most of my team got laid off because "AI can do their jobs now."

I'm probably the last one standing. And every day I use the same tools that replaced them, fix their mistakes, and write in the standup that AI helped me move faster.

Nobody was being honest about this. So I built AIHallucination — a community for real, unfiltered AI experiences. The fails, the wins, the absurd outputs, the expectation vs reality moments we all quietly live through.

This is the technical story of how I built it.

The Stack

TanStack Start — React 19 with SSR and file-based routing. First time using it in production. The mental model takes getting used to but the DX is excellent once it clicks.

PostgreSQL + Drizzle ORM — type-safe queries, no magic, exactly what I wanted

Better Auth — email/password + Google OAuth, username plugin.…