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Your AI-built budget app says you're -$0.00 over budget: 6 money bugs in JavaScript (and the prompts that fix them)

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AI coding assistants usually store money in a budget app as a plain JavaScript number, and that one choice causes most of the small, embarrassing bugs people find after the app "works." None of them crash anything. The totals just come out a fraction of a cent wrong, and the UI turns that fraction…

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  1. 2026-11-05 13:20 · DEV Community — AI
    Your AI-built budget app says you're -$0.00 over budget: 6 money bugs in JavaScript (and the prompts that fix them)

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