To AI or not to AI

A development team conducted a two-week experiment building an app using full AI assistance with Claude Code, but encountered significant challenges including lack of context awareness, poor code maintainability, workflow disruption, API hallucinations, and the 80/20 problem where AI handled basic tasks well but struggled with edge cases. Despite the frustrations, they continue using AI selectively for search, rubber ducking, code snippets, testing, and language tasks while maintaining control over the development process.