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AI for Coding: Why Most Developers Are Getting It Wrong


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AI-generated complexity: I recently built a course generation platform - front-end, back-end, WebSocket integration, queue mechanisms for checkpoint recovery, cost calculations - in about 5 hours of actual work time. I learned this the hard way when an AI-generated Ansible script locked me out of root access because I asked it to "make it super secure" without reviewing the implementation (novice mistake). A controversial MIT study found that in some cases, AI coding tools actually slow down experienced developers due to context switching overhead and review requirements.

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