I had my AI review its own code, and it found 3 bugs it had just written

Do you trust the code your AI assistant just wrote for you?

I did. More than I should have.

Lately, right after my AI (I use Claude Code) writes something, I ask it one more thing: pretend you didn't write this. Review it like a skeptical senior engineer who's never seen it before.

Last week, that one extra step found 3 bugs. In code the same AI had written minutes earlier. Bugs it hadn't noticed at all when it wrote it.

Turns out, the person who writes something can't see its flaws. And apparently, that's true for AI too.