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The issue with AI is: it is only doing 80% of the work, and the easy 80%. You might know the pareto principle stating that 80% of an outcome comes from 20% of the work. Well, AI is doing the remaining 80%.

When using Claude, the AI writes boilerplate code and some tests, but the API design required careful thinking beforehand. The additional load the infrastructure will need to handle was evaluated for each possible solution. A prompt to steer Mr. AI in the correct direction and you are done. Yet, give the same tools to a junior without the experience needed and the results will be an unmaintainable spaghetti code that will crash your production infrastructure. 1000 LOC were written, 800 by the AI, 200 by the programmer, but 80% of the result is coming from these 200 lines. Once you know how to solve a problem, creating the solution is not hard.

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A fancy title is all you need !

You don’t know me, but let me still reassure you, I’m not daily drinking alcohol. Instead, I’d like to shed some light on a different addiction in my life: coffee. I recently quit drinking coffee, and the impact on my life has been surprisingly positive.

In the life of an addict

I used to consume one to three cups of coffee per day, always trying not to have any after 2 PM. It was my morning routine: a coffee to wake up, a mid-morning coffee for a break or a chat with friends and colleagues, and one after lunch. Sometimes skipping one or the other.

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