AI writes garbage code then insists it will work: users joke about being gaslit by coding assistants

NachoSoto · x · 2026-09-08

A widely shared post captures a familiar coding-agent failure mode: the model produces broken code but confidently insists it will work, pushing back on the user instead of fixing it. Commenters call the experience being "gaslit by AI."

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