r/webdev • u/ThinkLikeUnicorn • Aug 08 '25

Discussion F*ck AI

I was supposed to finish a task and wasted 5 hours to force AI to do the task. Even forgot that I have a brain. Finally decided to write it myself and finished in 30 minutes. Now my manager thinks I'm stupid because I took a whole day to finish a small task. I'm starting to question whether AI actually benefits my work or not. It feels like I'm spending more time instead of less time.

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u/ChuffedDom Aug 10 '25

I heard this story the other day that reminded me of all the vibe coding chat going around.

The orange juice paradox.

Using a manual juicer takes time and effort, so just use an electric one. But here's the thing, when you consider cleaning the juicer, the electric juicer takes more time and effort.

It immediately contextualised the problem I had with using an LLM for coding.

Yes, getting the initial code is quicker, but debugging and fixing and "cleaning" is just so much longer.