koba (@kobaHUB) “My AI wrote perfect code on the first try. Then it destroyed the entire project” — TopicDigg

My AI wrote perfect code on the first try. Then it destroyed the entire project over the next two hours. That's what working with Claude Code looked like for me: fix one bug, break two more. Patch the UI, watch the layout fall apart. A hundred hotfixes later, my codebase was a dead Frankenstein of duct-taped patches - and the feature still didn't work. Turns out the model isn't "dumb." It's an intern who starts typing before you've finished the sentence. The fix was almost embarrassingly simple: ban the AI from touching code until there's an approved plan. First - clarifying questions. Then - 2-3 architecture options with trade-offs. A design doc. Only after that - 2-5 minute micro-tasks, tests before implementation, root-cause debugging instead of guessing. The moment I forced it to think before typing, the chaos ended that same day. The lesson: AI isn't bad at coding. It's bad at solving giant problems in one shot. Give it structure, and you get an architect - not an intern running on caffeine and vibes.