Yeah, I’ve run into that too. When you let the AI "drive" completely, it tends to patch symptoms instead of reasoning about the system. I wouldn’t trust it to autonomously fix production code either.
Where it does shine for me is in the grindy parts: refactoring, writing boilerplate, scaffolding new components, or even surfacing edge cases I hadn’t thought about. I’m building FreeDevTools, and I still do the design + final decision-making myself. The AI just helps me move faster across SEO, styling, bug-fixing, backend/frontend glue code, etc.
Basically, I treat it more like a junior pair programmer, useful for speed, but absolutely not a replacement for review, testing, or architectural thinking.
Where it does shine for me is in the grindy parts: refactoring, writing boilerplate, scaffolding new components, or even surfacing edge cases I hadn’t thought about. I’m building FreeDevTools, and I still do the design + final decision-making myself. The AI just helps me move faster across SEO, styling, bug-fixing, backend/frontend glue code, etc.
Basically, I treat it more like a junior pair programmer, useful for speed, but absolutely not a replacement for review, testing, or architectural thinking.
https://github.com/HexmosTech/FreeDevTools