AI wrote the first 80% of my feature in 10 minutes.
The code was clean. The logic made sense. The happy path worked on the first try. I ran it, saw it work, and felt that specific kind of developer pride that makes you lean back in your chair slightly.
I was impressed. I felt genuinely productive. I thought I'd be done in another 10, maybe 15 minutes.
That was Tuesday By Thursday evening I was still working on the same feature. Not because the AI had failed. Because it had succeeded at exactly the wrong thing the easy part and left the actual hard part entirely to me.
The edge cases. The error handling. The null checks. The situations that only surface when a real user does something the happy path didn't anticipate.
