Beware: Real risks of using AI as a software dev team
Beware: Real risks of using AI as a software dev team 30 Sep, 2026 The words that follow are words of caution learned first-hand. They’re for engineering leaders, managers, and CTOs. They’re for working software engineers who know (or suspect) there are major drawbacks to leaning hard into building software with LLM-powered tools.
- ▪Beware: Real risks of using AI as a software dev team 30 Sep, 2026 The words that follow are words of caution learned first-hand.
- ▪They’re for engineering leaders, managers, and CTOs.
- ▪They’re for working software engineers who know (or suspect) there are major drawbacks to leaning hard into building software with LLM-powered tools.
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| Original publisher | Brett Codes |
| Canonical URL | https://brettcodes.com/beware/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:24:00 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-30T14:42:01.518Z |
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Beware: Real risks of using AI as a software dev team 30 Sep, 2026 The words that follow are words of caution learned first-hand. They’re for engineering leaders, managers, and CTOs. They’re for working software engineers who know (or suspect) there are major drawbacks to leaning hard into building software with LLM-powered tools. They’re for me, as a way of admitting my failures as an engineering leader so that others might avoid the same mistakes. ▶ Watch the ramble video version of this post. Beware building features the team doesn’t understand. When things go wrong and the chatbot can't figure it out, it’s a bad situation. Beware LLM-generated writing that's used in human communication. It's always excessively verbose and typically useless.
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