As a corollary, AI takes those out of date TODOs and READMEs as gospel truth and doesn’t look any further. I kept a “janitor list” in main() but maybe wasn’t too great at scrubbing it on the regular. AI took a long detour to work around problems that didn’t exist anymore.
I do use it and find it useful but it’s like your kids helping you cook dinner. You can not take your eyes off it. Otherwise you get to flip a coin between firetrucks or emergency room.
As a corollary, AI takes those out of date TODOs and READMEs as gospel truth and doesn’t look any further. I kept a “janitor list” in
main()but maybe wasn’t too great at scrubbing it on the regular. AI took a long detour to work around problems that didn’t exist anymore.I do use it and find it useful but it’s like your kids helping you cook dinner. You can not take your eyes off it. Otherwise you get to flip a coin between firetrucks or emergency room.
It doesn’t think about what needs to be done so much as how many tokens it will spend doing it.