You are speaking out of my soul. Thank you. Great example. I have grinded AI extensively 14 hours a day on my own project for months. I’ve been using AI since GPT-2.

I maxxed out Claude Max $200 subscription and before I justified spending $100/day.

And it was worth it, but not because it wrote me so good code, but because I learnt the lessons of software engineering fast. I had the exact ride you are describing. My software was incredible broken.

Now I see all the cracks, lies and "barking the wrong tree" issues clearly.

NOW i treat it as an untrustworyth search engine for domains I’m behind at. I also use predict next edit and auto-complete, but I don’t let AI do any edit on my codebase anymore.