There’s a lot of hype right now around using AI in software development. And to be fair, the hype isn’t entirely misplaced. AI can write code. It can summarize, generate, and even refactor. But there’s a major problem with the way most people use it. The problem is guessing.
When AI Has to Guess
If your prompt is not sufficiently clear, the AI has no choice but to guess what you meant. And this guessing introduces subtle. and sometimes major. errors. It might guess wrong about your naming conventions, your error-handling preferences, your architectural style, or your end goals. Even if you think the prompt is clear, the AI may read it differently than you do.