Safety
Beginner Safety Rules for Building With AI
AI can help you move faster, but speed is only useful when you keep control of data, publishing, customer actions, and rollback.
Do not paste secrets, passwords, API keys, private customer data, or sensitive files into tools unless you understand the risk.
Always back up your site before major changes.
Use staging when possible.
Review changes before publishing.
Test forms, buttons, calculations, links, and mobile layout.
Keep humans in the loop for payments, customer emails, legal claims, health advice, financial advice, and account actions.
Avoid tools that take irreversible actions without approval.
Be careful with databases and user data.
Do not collect emails without a privacy-aware plan.
Keep launch scope small.
Save working versions.
Document what changed.
Use a rollback plan.
Reusable checklist
- Do not paste secrets, passwords, API keys, private customer data, or sensitive files into tools unless you understand the risk.
- Always back up your site before major changes.
- Use staging when possible.
- Review changes before publishing.
- Test forms, buttons, calculations, links, and mobile layout.
- Keep humans in the loop for payments, customer emails, legal claims, health advice, financial advice, and account actions.
- Avoid tools that take irreversible actions without approval.
- Be careful with databases and user data.
- Do not collect emails without a privacy-aware plan.
- Keep launch scope small.
- Save working versions.
- Document what changed.
- Use a rollback plan.