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by incomingpain 135 days ago
AI is like a genie, but instead of three wishes, it gives you 10,000 lines of code that fulfill your prompt exactly while accidentally summoning a demon in your production environment.

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The real danger of AI is that it's eager to build exactly what we asked for, even though it's an architecture disaster.

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That just means I've asked it to build a disaster without knowing it.

Now instead of me slowly implementing the disaster, I can fix the design and go into the next iteration with a clearer picture in mind.