Forcing AI to Write Ugly Hacks Makes It Slower and 'Hesitant'

IgorBrigadir · x · 2026-08-05

A developer shared an amusing observation regarding AI coding assistant behavior: when forcing Fable to abandon its suggested "well-thought-out but highly complex" system in favor of implementing "ugly hacks and shortcuts," the AI's response time noticeably degraded.

The author joked that the model's slower pace felt almost as if it was "hesitating" or silently "judging" the developer's poor architectural decisions.

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