--- title: When the LLM Drifts Away | daily.dev description: A developer shares firsthand experience with LLM drift while building APIs backed by Neo4j and Cypher. The post describes three failure patterns: greedy... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/when-the-llm-drifts-away-f5dv1eimx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: When the LLM Drifts Away | daily.dev og:description: A developer shares firsthand experience with LLM drift while building APIs backed by Neo4j and Cypher. The post describes three failure patterns: greedy... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/when-the-llm-drifts-away-f5dv1eimx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/f5dV1eimx.png og:image:alt: When the LLM Drifts Away 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. # When the LLM Drifts Away **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 5 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares firsthand experience with LLM drift while building APIs backed by Neo4j and Cypher. The post describes three failure patterns: greedy short-term reasoning that leads to compounding bugs, stubborn fixation on a flawed approach despite corrections, and unnecessary reinvention of existing patterns. The author's takeaway is to evaluate whether generated code will hold up tomorrow, and to recognize when to break the loop and intervene manually rather than continuing to debug AI-generated code. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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