--- title: Has AI ruined coding? | daily.dev description: A senior software engineer shares a critical perspective on AI coding tools, arguing they make development worse by being confidently wrong. While AI often... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/has-ai-ruined-coding--i8iox7xyp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Has AI ruined coding? | daily.dev og:description: A senior software engineer shares a critical perspective on AI coding tools, arguing they make development worse by being confidently wrong. While AI often... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/has-ai-ruined-coding--i8iox7xyp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/i8IOX7XYP.png og:image:alt: Has AI ruined coding? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Has AI ruined coding? **[Tech With Tim](https://daily.dev/sources/TechWithTim)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A senior software engineer shares a critical perspective on AI coding tools, arguing they make development worse by being confidently wrong. While AI often speeds up routine tasks, when significant issues arise the AI-generated code becomes a convoluted mess that's harder to fix than starting from scratch. 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