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Jorch C.
Jorch C.

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When AI Fails, Good Documentation Saves the Day 🤖📚

Picture this: I’m setting up a CI/CD pipeline—nothing too fancy. I call in the big guns (Copilot, ChatGPT, you name it) to speed things up. AI confidently spits out solutions, I implement them... and boom 💥—it doesn’t work.

After hours of back-and-forth with AI, I finally turned to something "old-school"—the documentation. Spoiler alert: it had the answer all along.

This isn’t a knock on AI—it’s an incredible tool—but moments like this remind me why good documentation is still essential.

Want to know the full story and my thoughts on AI vs. dev expertise? Check out my latest blog post.

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