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Engineer details a year of workarounds for AI coding "slop"

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A blog post titled "A Senior Software Engineer's Perspective on Building with AI" describes a year of experimentation with multiple AI coding tools, arguing AI needs detailed prompting to avoid cluttered UIs and generic copy, and describes writing over 120 custom "guardrail" scripts that fail the build when a previously fixed AI mistake reappears.

Engineer details a year of workarounds for AI coding "slop"
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“if you let them do everything, you will end up with a sloppy, cluttered mess”

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sitecmd.com blog author self-described senior software engineer, blog authorJimmy Miller software engineer, blog author (jimmyhmiller.com)Daniel Lemire computer scientist, blog author

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