Coding with an AI is an amplifier. It'll amplify your poor planning just as much as it amplifies your speed at getting some coding task done. An unplanned pro

Coding with an AI is an amplifier. It'll amplify your poor planning just as much as it amplifies your speed at getting some coding task done. An unplanned problem becomes amplified by 10-100x worse than if you coded things slowly, by hand. That's when the AI starts driving you into Complexity Corner™ (LOL) to work around the lack of planning. If all you're ever doing is using prompts like, `write a function to do...` or `write a class...` you're never going to run into the sorts of super fucking annoying problems that people using AI complain the most about. It's soooooo tempting to just tell the AI to make complete implementations of things and say to yourself, "I'll clean that up later." You make so much progress so fast this way it's unreal! Then you hit Complexity Corner™ where the problem is beyond the (current) LLM's capabilities. Coding with AI takes discipline! Not just knowledge and experience.