AI pair-programming fatigue: code now comes before understanding
gftea · reddit · 2026-10-19
A Reddit developer describes the fatigue of AI-assisted coding: agents have massively accelerated the pace of software development while understanding lags behind. Understanding used to come first and code second; now code often comes before understanding, and there's no way back.
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