AI wrote the code in 30 seconds

Three lines A simple function I prompted it generated I copied It looked fine Clean syntax Good variable names No obvious errors.

I spent the next 5 hours debugging it.

The bug wasn't in the logic The AI had made a quiet assumption - that a list would never be empty It worked 99% of the time The 1% crashed in production A real user A real failure A very real 5 hours of my life.

30 seconds of generation 5 hours of debugging.