A Missing Mental Model: Why AI doesn't Understand Codebases
Is it just me, or are the code generation AIs we're all using fundamentally broken? For months, I've watched developers praise AI coding tools while silently cleaning up their messes, afraid to admit how much babysitting they actually need. I realized that AI IDEs don't actually understand codebases — they're just sophisticated autocomplete tools with good marketing. The emperor has no clothes, and I'm tired of…