I coded myself into a corner with AI, this is how I wrote myself out
Agentic AiAi CodingGoogle AntigravityAi DevelopmentI coded myself into a corner with AI, this is how I wrote myself out.Daniel Payne6 min read·2 hours ago--ListenShareAI First development is really fast, you have something to show whiten hours. But it grows into an uncontrollable monster very quickly. Soon the LLM creates more bugs than it fixes.
- ▪Agentic AiAi CodingGoogle AntigravityAi DevelopmentI coded myself into a corner with AI, this is how I wrote myself out.Daniel Payne6 min read·2 hours ago--ListenShareAI First development is really fast, you have something to show whiten ho
- ▪But it grows into an uncontrollable monster very quickly.
- ▪Soon the LLM creates more bugs than it fixes.
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| Original publisher | Medium |
| Canonical URL | https://medium.com/@daniel-payne-keldan-systems/i-coded-myself-into-a-corner-with-ai-this-is-how-i-wrote-myself-out-e977a9afcfb5 |
| Publication time | Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:04:50 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-11T15:20:42.460Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-11T15:20:42.460Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | 5s7z8yhUp34N · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Agentic AiAi CodingGoogle AntigravityAi DevelopmentI coded myself into a corner with AI, this is how I wrote myself out.Daniel Payne6 min read·2 hours ago--ListenShareAI First development is really fast, you have something to show whiten hours. But it grows into an uncontrollable monster very quickly. Soon the LLM creates more bugs than it fixes. This is my experience.This is not new, I have worked on applications in banking that have had codebases with over 2 million lines of code, written by hundreds of people over many years.
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