When Does AI-Assisted Development Make You Lose Understanding of Your Codebase? Developers Seek Practical Workflows
Few-Garlic2725 · reddit · 2026-08-14
Reddit user Few-Garlic2725 discusses the risk of AI coding tools: after agents make many small decisions, the app works but developers no longer fully understand the code. They seek practical rules like reading every diff, writing specs first, banning agents from architecture, keeping changes small, and using tests as boundaries to avoid losing ownership.
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