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Published The pull request looks great. The tests are green. The demo even runs beautifully. Then, six months later, someone opens the file and finds duplicated logic, hidden global state, a function called processData2, and an error handler that catches everything except the one error that actually matters. This is the recurring problem with AI-generated code: it is optimized to satisfy the immediate check, not to remain pleasant to work with after the prototype disappears. The code may pass today…
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Upgrade this serverPublished The pull request looks great. The tests are green. The demo even runs beautifully. Then, six months later, someone opens the file and finds duplicated logic, hidden global state, a function called processData2, and an error handler that catches everything except the one error that actually matters. This is the recurring problem with AI-generated code: it is optimized to satisfy the immediate check, not to remain pleasant to work with after the prototype disappears. The code may pass today while quietly becoming brittle, confusing, insecure, expensive, or impossible to extend. That…
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