I ve been relying on AI coding tools a lot more over the last few weeks to speed up my workflow.
At first, it feels like a total cheat code. You hit autocomplete, or drop a quick prompt, and boom syntax errors vanish and boilerplate logic is done in seconds
But lately, I ve hit a wall.
The moment a bug involves a deep state-management issue, multi-file dependencies, or some weird framework edge case, things go sideways fast. The AI starts giving confident answers that turn out to be completely wrong. Before you know it, you ve spent 45 minutes tweaking prompts and reading broken generated code something that a standard console.log or breakpoint would ve caught in 5 minutes