AI finishes 90% in 10 minutes; the last 10% takes 4 hours of debugging
tech__unicorn · x · 2026-10-16
A widely relatable take on AI-assisted coding: AI happily gets you 90% of the way there in 10 minutes, but the remaining 10% costs 4 hours of debugging, context switching, reviewing, and trying to remember what the original task even was.
The punchline: "congratulations, you're now middle management for robots" — capturing the real cost profile of AI coding, where generation is fast but finishing the work is not.
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