Beautiful But Broken: The AI Refactoring Trap

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Beautiful But Broken: The AI Refactoring Trap

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Standing at the crossroads of decision, a developer faces the harsh truth about AI-generated code. GPT-5 promised the architectural equivalent of the Sistine Chapel but delivered a beautiful disaster instead. The elegantly refactored codebase looks magnificent on paper—all shiny patterns and clever abstractions—but runs with the grace of a three-legged elephant. It's the coding equivalent of building a Ferrari with cardboard parts. Stunning to look at, completely useless in practice. Yet we keep coming back for more punishment, don't we? Because deep down, we're all suckers for beautiful code, even when it spectacularly fails to compile.

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