For people who shipped with Lovable · Bolt · v0 · Cursor · Claude

You built
a real app.

People pay for it. You shipped it in a weekend.
Nobody told you about day 2.

REGRESSION GATE — ENGAGED /// REGRESSION GATE — ENGAGED /// REGRESSION GATE — ENGAGED /// REGRESSION GATE — ENGAGED ///

caughtall 3 breaks — blocked before merge

shipped0 broken things

surfacedyour 7 pre-existing failures, honestly

This is the moment the loop dies.
It’s calmer from here down.

For people who shipped with Lovable · Bolt · v0 · Cursor · Claude

You built a real app.

People pay for it. Nobody told you about day 2.

You fixed one thing.
Three things broke.

“it broke everything” — r/lovable “afraid to touch it” “guys, i’m under attack” “burned 50% of my credits just fixing it” “vibe coding hell” — r/vibecoding

REGRESSION GATE — ENGAGED

caughtall 3 breaks — blocked before merge

shipped0 broken things

surfacedyour 7 pre-existing failures, honestly

This is the moment the loop dies. It’s calmer from here down.

01What just happened

A gate that blocks what a change breaks.
Nothing else.

Athema compares every change against your repo’s actual baseline. A test that used to pass goes red? The change is blocked, fixed, and re-validated until it’s clean. The 7 tests that were already failing? Surfaced in an honest debt report — not used to hold your app hostage.

Built for messy real repos, because that’s what a real app is. No impossible all-green demanded. No mess swept under the rug.

RUN 412 · A discount-code field for your checkout RUNNING · LIVE

UnderstandBuildTestProofYour seal

15:39Read your request and the checkout code around it. Chose the smallest change that works.
15:40Wrote the field and its label. Two files touched; nothing else disturbed.
15:41Ran 214 checks across 6 browsers and 3 phone sizes.
15:41Gate: one search test that used to pass went red. Change blocked.
15:42Fixed the regression, re-ran everything. Clean.
15:43Filmed the new field working in a real browser — end to end, with a live discount code.
15:44Opened PR #112 for your approval. Nothing merges without you.
PROOF · 0:05 Filmed, not claimed — WELCOME10 ✓ −10% · total ~~$42.00~~ $37.80

real product surface, redrawn in this page’s ink · the run shown is a demo

02The method

Three moves.
In this order,
on purpose.

Harden

Before anything changes, your app gets what it never had: real tests, CI, review — installed by one setup PR. It becomes safe to touch. No more “if it works, NEVER TOUCH IT.”

Equip

Then your repo gets an in-repo agentic operating system — the harness, contracts, and prompts that let it run, fix, and improve itself, with the discipline baked in.

Operate & adapt

Then agents go to work in a hosted cloud — and a per-repo Adapt agent learns from every correction you make, so your app needs you a little less each week.

03The fair question

“More AI on the code
AI already broke?”

“If you don’t understand the code, your only recourse is to ask AI to fix it for you — which is like paying off credit card debt with another credit card.”
— Steve Krouse, “Vibe code is legacy code” · 758 points on Hacker News

He’s right — about raw AI.

Athema isn’t a chat window promising to be careful this time. It’s the discipline your app never had, made mechanical:

Tests before changes. Hardening comes first; nothing operates on an untested app.
A gate that trusts no one. Every change is checked against what used to pass — including the AI’s own work. Especially the AI’s own work.
Every change is a PR you approve. Merges wait for your seal. Always.
Autonomy is measured, not promised. L0→L5, earned rung by rung, and you set the ceiling.

The gate doesn’t trust the AI either.
That’s the point.

04The scoreboard

Autonomy you can
watch climb.

Every app on Athema sits on a rung of the Ladder of Autonomy — measured from how often the work actually needs a human, not from vibes. Trust is earned per repo, rung by rung.

You set the ceiling. Anything near money, logins, or customer data always comes to you — that rule only ever gets stricter, never looser.

maple-storefront.com HEALTHY · WATCHING

L0untested

L1hardened

L2small fixes

L3proposes work

L4ships safe changes

L5self-maintaining

Level 2 — trusted with small fixes. Ships bug fixes and tune-ups on its own; asks first for anything your customers would notice.

1change needed youof 12 shipped this month

214checks before shippingacross 6 browsers, 3 phone sizes

$12.40spent of $50 budgetmetered per change, no seats

240signals read a dayonly what matters surfaces

NEEDS YOU — 1

A discount-code field for your checkout — ready for your sign-off.

214 checks passed · fully reversible · touches no payment code

Review & ship →

real product surface, redrawn in this page’s ink · the numbers are a demo

“vibe coding hell” ✺ “endless error loops” ✺ “afraid to touch it” ✺ “it works tho” ✺ “burned 50% of my credits” ✺ “guys, i’m under attack” ✺ “stuck in a loop” ✺ “it broke everything” ✺ “vibe coding hell” ✺ “endless error loops” ✺ “afraid to touch it” ✺ “it works tho” ✺ “burned 50% of my credits” ✺ “guys, i’m under attack” ✺ “stuck in a loop” ✺ “it broke everything” ✺

code you didn’t write ✺ logic you never learned ✺ at 2am ✺ the last 20% ✺ prototype to production ✺ tech debt as fast as the LLM can spit it out ✺ code you didn’t write ✺ logic you never learned ✺ at 2am ✺ the last 20% ✺ prototype to production ✺ tech debt as fast as the LLM can spit it out ✺

05The receipts

You’ve been telling
the internet.

Real threads, real builders, linked. We just listened.

“fix one thing and break three other things”

r/SaaS — “AI Feels Like Magic… Until You’re the Magician Stuck Cleaning the Hat”

“Lovable.dev 2.0 Update Broke My App – Burned 50% of Credits Just Fixing It”

r/lovable — thread title, verbatim

“If something works, NEVER TOUCH IT. Fixing one thing breaks three others”

r/nocode — “I Tried No-Code. Now I Cry in Workflows.”

“One day, it just breaks and you don’t know why”

Hacker News — “Vibe coding cleanup as a service”

06The math

A rescue is a moment.
This is the engineer that never leaves.

The market’s current answer is a human “vibe-code rescue”: $2,500–$6,000, every time it catches fire.source

Or you keep burning credits arguing with a bot about a bug it caused.

Solo

A side project, or your first app.

$50/mo

$50 of work · 1 app

The night watch, every night
Every change sealed by you
Morning notes & metered costs

Start with Solo

MOST MAKERS

Studio

A real, growing product — or a few.

$300/mo

$300 of work · up to 5 apps

Everything in Solo
The full autonomy dial, L0–L5
Signals from customers & reviews

Start with Studio

Scale

A portfolio under one roof.

Let’s talk

custom budget · unlimited apps

Higher autonomy ceilings
Concierge onboarding
A human on call

Talk to us

Annual: two months free · change or leave any month · unused budget rolls over once. Pay for the work, not the seats.

07The way out

Break
the loop.

Install the GitHub App.Athema meets your repo where it is — mess and all.
Approve one setup PR.Tests, CI, review, the agentic OS. You approve it like any PR.
Watch the board.Your first run narrates itself — what changed, what held, what it caught.

Connect your app → read how the gate works first

Connect in minutes. Nothing merges without you.

You builta real app.

You built a real app.

A gate that blocks what a change breaks.Nothing else.

Three moves.In this order,on purpose.