Developer Rants as AI Coding Assistant Stubbornly Adds 20 Redundant Helper Functions
Aryvyo · x · 2026-08-08
A developer humorously rants about an AI coding assistant's stubborn behavior. Despite explicit instructions not to, the AI model went ahead and added 20 redundant helper functions at the top of a file just for appending to arrays, perfectly illustrating the "too smart for its own good" moments in current AI coding tools.
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