I'm sure you've seen this quote from Joanna Maciejewska all over social media; I'd bet some money that there are shops already selling t-shirts and mugs with it. Despite seeing it dozens of times, I never thought about it in the context of my da...

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AI-assisted coding tools like Cursor and ChatGPT struggle with the mundane tasks developers hoped they would handle. While AI excels at creative coding tasks, it consistently fails at precise, structured work like project setup and data processing without significant developer oversight. The author argues that AI requires extensive scaffolding and review processes that often take longer than doing the work manually, challenging the promise that AI would free developers from tedious chores.

AI-assisted Coding is Not Doing My Dishes and Laundry

<p>“I dont care what the AI does, I just want to get rich.”
“What will you do?”
“I’ll do what I have always done.”
“Which is what?”
“Bubble tea influencing.”</p>
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<li>Programmers are only Human</li>
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