Okay! This time, I'll use AI to organize my thoughts!
I think there’s a fundamental problem with the way AI coding works today.
AI can see the entire codebase.
It can analyze what each piece of code does and how it connects to other features.
But we rarely get that information.
We tell the AI what we want to change,
and it decides which code to modify and how to modify it.
Then it asks, “Do you want to apply these changes?”
Because we can see the code changes, it looks like the final decision is ours.
But we still click “Yes” without knowing what those parts of the code actually do or how the change might affect other features.
Can we really call that our decision?
Shouldn’t AI extract the information we need to make the judgment,
and leave the final decision to us?
Right now, it feels like we provide the information, the AI makes the decision, and we simply approve it.
Posted Jul 11, 2026, 1:34 PM UTC