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I'm not sure that I completely agree... my longest lived apps are the ones that were built with a KISS to the extreme mindset... make it as simple as possible and easy to replace as can be. Then it just lives forever.

My issues with using agents is actually kind of similar... pushing for simpler solutions over excess complexity... I want an image zoom control, and the AI goes down a rabbit hole of complex math, JS and CSS... Why not just wrap in a div with overflow properties set and scale the actual image size? (then it does that and uses 1/10th the code, and surprise it actually works).

The more I use AI, the more I hear about overspend and rework, the more I'm absolutely convinced that the right way to use AI in coding is as a gatekeeper... babysit it, review what it does and steer it in the right direction.