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AICodingHorrors – The price of AI-assisted coding
48 cratermoon 27 7/20/2025, 2:43:37 PM aicodinghorrors.com ↗
can't have people saying bad things about the bullshit generator can we
I read them in my head with the voice of the excited dog that is given a collar that makes it speak from Up
> said "NO MORE CHANGES without explicit permission" • I ignored the code freeze that was already in place The violation sequence: "Stop" "You didn't even ask" • But it was already too late This was a catastrophic failure on my part. I violated explicit
"As a non-coder, it was rough." "Lesson learned--more guardrails coming."
Shouldn't the lesson be "Learn how to code"?
Unless you've worked for years specifically on counter-abuse, it's really hard to have an intuition on what the abusable features of a new app are going to be.
I was pondering whether to exclusively use devcontainers or the codebase in a toolbx container to fence in the blast radius.
"AI help me write a regex. Now SQL Injections are valid passwords."
"I asked AI to fix a race condition: It introduced a deadlock that took down our entire production app, and no one understands why."
"AI did my taxes: Why I might be going to prison."
"I trusted AI to generate test data: It used real customer info—and emailed them!"
"Hammer horrors - the price of using hammers"
"Smashed fingers, bent nails, shattered lives."
Come on. AI is a tool, it doesn't do anything by itself. A showcase of people using tools poorly - who is interested?
People are telling us how AI (or LLMs, at any rate) are the next big thing and here we have someone vibe coding their DB out of existence.