Side Effect of Cheap AI Coding: Developers Obsess Over Meaningless Details
cgarciae88 · x · 2026-08-14
Researcher Julia Turc reflects on a side effect of AI coding tools: when code generation becomes extremely cheap and efficient, developers easily fall into the trap of over-engineering. People involuntarily spend time polishing "pretty but ultimately meaningless" details, ultimately wasting their own energy.
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