The Unbearable Lightness of Coding
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A developer built a complete RAG retrieval system with embeddings, hybrid search, and GUI in 25 hours using AI tools, but spent two days struggling to fix a simple bug because they didn't understand their own AI-generated codebase. The experience highlights the productivity-intimacy tradeoff: massive speed gains come at the cost of losing deep technical understanding of implementation details.
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