Just got burned by an AI coding assistant on a client project last Thursday

I was using GitHub Copilot to speed through a React component for a small business site. It suggested a hook that looked right at first glance, but it had a hidden infinite loop that crashed the whole app during demo. Client wasn't happy. Had to stay up until 2am to manually rewrite the logic. Anyone else had AI tools sneak in bugs that take longer to fix than writing from scratch?

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rodriguez.jordan17d ago

Different take - Copilot saves me way more time than it wastes even with the occasional bug lol.

the_ruby17d ago

Tbh I only use AI tools for boilerplate or one-off logic now. For anything with complex state or side effects I always write it by hand cause debugging AI code at 2am is the worst.