--- title: The AI Agent Couldn't Help this Website | daily.dev description: A rambling anecdote describes a frustrating encounter with a major banking website that silently hung when a form field was filled in incorrectly, with no... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-ai-agent-couldn-t-help-this-website-jc19sl0ee twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The AI Agent Couldn't Help this Website | daily.dev og:description: A rambling anecdote describes a frustrating encounter with a major banking website that silently hung when a form field was filled in incorrectly, with no... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-ai-agent-couldn-t-help-this-website-jc19sl0ee og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Jc19sl0EE.png og:image:alt: The AI Agent Couldn't Help this Website 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. # The AI Agent Couldn't Help this Website **[Stefan Mischook](https://daily.dev/sources/stefanmischook)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A rambling anecdote describes a frustrating encounter with a major banking website that silently hung when a form field was filled in incorrectly, with no visible error messages and tech support unable to diagnose the issue. The speaker uses this as evidence that plenty of software still lacks basic error handling and UX polish, arguing there's abundant development work fixing existing apps despite AI hype about development jobs disappearing. The piece ends with a pitch for the speaker's paid mentoring program for aspiring developers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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