Post Time: 2026-03-13

Country: United States, Australia, United Kingdom. City: Billings, Chicago, Henderson, Toledo, Wichita FallsAI coding tools suck and are not at all what was promised. I'm done. 00:00 - intro 00:15 - i used to enjoy programming 01:05 - why did I become a programmer 01:55 - AI / LLMs are not predictable 02:47 - models are magic boxes 03:26 - ai programming has become a religion 04:05 - what I've learned and know about working with AI coding tools 04:21 - agents.md / rules 05:38 - make a plan before coding 06:16 - validate the plan 06:49 - use spec driven workflows 07:36 - work on small features not big sweeping changes 07:52 website - use AI to write tests / use interactive debugging MCPs 08:17 - AI models are goal seeking 09:11 - use agentic Read A great deal more workflows to prevent context bloat 10:13 - how i use AI summary 10:39 - FOMO based development 11:40 - what to click here for info do as a new programmer? 12:12 - everything is competing for your attention / money 12:43 - all AI tools are wrappers for foundational models + slight edge 13:15 - use the tools that work 13:40 - what now? 14:24 - what are you going to do? 15:16 - thanks! 🔥 Be the ~14,700th person to join our super tasty newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hit us up on Socials! Syntax: Scott: Wes: CJ: Randy: Brought to you by Sentry.io #ai #chatgpt #claude #programming #webdevelopment #webdeveloper #syntaxfm