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                    "I\u2019m a full time SWE and AI has been a boon for my career and software in my personal life.I\u2019m plowing through huge projects at work I never dreamed possible before agentic development. And now I can write side projects with the limited time I have.My current take is that AI is still broadly terrible at writing code on its own (I use codex and Claude code). What has made me effective is writing dev tooling that deterministically write and enforce code design.My team uses the tools I wrote, and with (much but not complete) confidence we can ship good code reliably with ease.BUT, to get there, it took a lot of SWE experience, mostly from drowning in shit code for many years. to know what is actually good takes knowing what is bad. And to scale that out across many engineers, to give them \u201ctaste\u201d for free, is not trivial. Without this tooling, I probably would have lost my mind tbh.I get the gripe with AI. If you don\u2019t know what the code is doing, someone else who reads it will, and you\u2019re wasting their time unless you\u2019re asking for something different than looking at the code. Maybe you have a product you want reviewed. In that case, does the code matter as much as a SDK? Doubtfully.> A coding assistant helps provide structure that I don\u2019t trust myself to impose.I believe you think you have some good rails, but it\u2019s relative. Maybe it\u2019s helpful to you but to a seasoned person or even objectively it just isn\u2019t. Or maybe it is good, idk.At any rate, asking for grace when shitslopping code in doesn\u2019t tee you up for mentorship. Investing in learning code itself and being honest about your limitations, for me at least, wins more points than dishonesty, which I see is a recommendation in another comment.You SHOULD be using AI in 2026 when you know how to steer it. And if you don\u2019t know how to, you SHOULD constantly check yourself and level up. Every loop of your agent is an opportunity to learn.You got this!"
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