Tell HN: A realization I've had about working with AIs and building software

Okay, here's my debrief. What I've realized is this: AI is an amplifier of what you are. It's not a substitute - it just reflects and scales whatever you bring to the table. When I was younger, I'd often just run at the wall and try to scale it fast. I'd throw a lot of code at the problem. Not out of carelessness - I was iterating quickly, looking for a working prototype that gave me feedback I could work with. Structure and architecture didn't matter to me as much - what I wanted was to hit the goal, the concept, the tangible result. And that actually worked. I built a lot of stuff that way. But I assumed AI would kind of "handle" the rest - that it would take care of the complexity, or clean things up. And what I've come to see is that AI just reflects your approach. If I'm in "throw code at the wall" mode, AI will just help me do that faster. Which can help. But it won't make the problem go away. It just accelerates wh