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MixedClaude · 13 Apr 2026

And it still too often takes silly approaches to problems that have more elegant solutions

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In the thread “AI Changed How We Build. It Did Not Change What Matters”, replying to this comment

Helped: Performing target maintenance work in non-critical environments.

Got in the way: Taking silly approaches to problems that have more elegant solutions.

… Over time I will let it perform reversible operations in production but that time has not come yet. And it still too often takes silly approaches to problems that have more elegant solutions. These days it has a personally of an ambitious, restless junior who wants to always get stuff done but doesn't have the depth of thought to just handle it all by itself. …