My editor got smart. It writes my code now. I don't write boring boilerplate anymore. This isn't breaking news.
AI coding tools promise speed. They automate the boring stuff. Sounds great on paper. Reality is messy. The novelty fades fast once you own the generated output.
I spun up a Node.js REST API last week. I let my smart editor scaffold the whole thing. It worked, technically. It also brought tons of garbage. Twelve new dependencies. Configuration hell. I spent three hours fixing dependency conflicts.
The best part? A custom logger threw silent errors because it wrote to a missing directory. I deleted the AI file and wrote a basic console wrapper in five minutes.
The AI added tech debt before I wrote a single line of business logic. The code was unreadable. I lost time instead of saving it.
These tools love code volume. Quality gets ignored. Speed wins the demo, but kills the project later.
Look at open-source stats. 80% of repos die in six months because maintainability tanks. We pump out garbage faster than ever.
I don't hate AI. I use it for regex and JSON schemas. Just stop trusting the output blindly. AI assists your brain. It doesn't replace architecture.
Test your editor's output before committing. Does it make sense? Did it import 50MB of packages for a simple string split?
Faster typing means nothing if debugging takes all afternoon. Real productivity is shipping code you can actually read six months from now.
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