SMRTR AIApr 6, 2026Daily.dev

AI Did It in 12 Minutes. It Took Me 10 Hours to Fix It

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A developer used AI to build a file upload system for his blog in just 12 minutes, but the generated 5,000 lines of messy "spaghetti code" required 10 hours of debugging and rewriting to actually function properly, ultimately forcing him to restructure the entire project into cleaner, maintainable code.

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