AI feels less like an autonomous programmer and more like a very capable junior engineer. The useful part is not just asking it to write code, but giving it co

AI feels less like an autonomous programmer and more like a very capable junior engineer. The useful part is not just asking it to write code, but giving it context: how the codebase got here, what constraints are intentional, where the sharp edges are, and what direction we want to take. With that guidance, it can be excellent. Without it, it tends to produce changes that make sense in isolation but not in the system.