Engineering
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AI Wrote 90% of the Code. I Caught 100% of the Mistakes That Would Have Shipped.
Three specific, plausible-looking mistakes from building a plan-picker widget with AI — a cart link that would have shown a different price than the page, a “talk to sales” footer that wouldn’t render until I reframed the problem, and a triple redundancy the AI never flagged. The only mode that ships clean on a high-stakes…
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AI Got to 80% on the Landing Page. The Last 20% Needed Domain Knowledge.
I had Claude build a landing page. Two versions, clean-looking, almost shipped. Then I caught an invisible-CTA specificity bug, a silently-dropped font import, a contact form that would have routed every lead to the wrong queue, and eight invented FAQs. AI gets to 80% fast. The last 20% needs domain knowledge.
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SOP Compliance ≠ Analytics Correctness
I audited a new build against production tag by tag. It came back clean — except for two “violations” my standard would have me fix. I overrode both, because fixing them would have silently broken every dashboard calibrated to the old values. An audit tool tells you what doesn’t match the spec; it can’t tell…