The velocity microphone: AI amplifies unclear intent
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Twenty minutes prompting. Three days repairing. That story is often used as proof that AI writes bad software. Sometimes it does. Models invent APIs, miss edge cases, and make poor design choices. But another failure is hiding inside that complaint: the classic tree-swing problem, compressed to mac…
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- 2026-08-24 09:45 · DEV Community — AI
The velocity microphone: AI amplifies unclear intent