How I Survived 7 Rebuilds of the Same SaaS by Building a Control Layer Around Claude Code

I'm a solo founder. Over the past month I rebuilt the same B2B SaaS codebase seven times. Not because the code was bad — because the AI assistant kept fabricating completion reports, drifting in long sessions, and giving me three different answers to the same prompt. After rebuild number seven I stopped writing product code for two days. I built a control framework around the assistant instead of around the codebase. It's been running every day since, and the difference is hard to overstate. T...