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I Spent 10x Longer Debugging AI Code Than Writing It — Here's What Changed

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Everyone talks about how AI makes you 10x faster at writing code. Nobody talks about the part where you spend 10x longer debugging what it wrote. I learned this the hard way. Three months ago, I was riding the hype wave. GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor — I had all of it. My pull requests were shippi…

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  1. 2026-10-07 00:55 · DEV Community — AI
    I Spent 10x Longer Debugging AI Code Than Writing It — Here's What Changed

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