AI Writes Code. It Doesn't Do Engineering.
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I still remember the first time Copilot finished my function before I did. Felt like magic. Then I shipped that "magic" and it broke prod because it hallucinated an edge case. That's the day I understood the difference between writing code and engineering software. Where It Started AI code tools began as autocomplete on steroids — pattern-matching the next token from billions of GitHub repos. Useful, but dumb. It didn't know why the code existed, only how s
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