Update 2026-01-31-ai_wonderland.markdown

Author: khnumdev

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 I'm not saying we should abandon standards. I'm saying that teams are now asking: "Does it work? Can we iterate on it quickly?" instead of "Is every line beautifully crafted for the next developer?" Not all code needs to be perfect. If you're building a startup, shipping fast matters more than pristine architecture. Why spend weeks refactoring for maintainability when AI can regenerate the codebase in minutes? The traditional justification for design patterns was that humans would maintain code for years. When AI handles that, patterns become less critical. 
 
-On the professional side, things are different. Code quality still matters, and AI helps me deliver features faster. What took hours before now takes minutes. But when AI underperforms, it's painful. You keep refining prompts, iterating endlessly, and eventually realize you've spent as much time as if you'd coded it yourself.
+On the professional side, things are different. Code quality still matters, and AI helps me deliver features faster. What took hours before now takes minutes. But when AI underperforms, it's painful. You keep refining prompts, iterating endlessly, and eventually realize you've spent as much time as if you'd coded it yourself. And is even worse if the AI does weird things instead of following your instructions.
 
 There's another aspect I've noticed: the loss of "sense of tracking progress." When I code manually, I know exactly what I'm doing—the style, the approach, the incremental steps. With AI, all files change at once. Sometimes it's a small refinement, sometimes a complete rewrite. The progression feels invisible, and the "mind effort" feels different than hands-on coding. 
 
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 ## "It's always tea-time"
 
-AI feels like a true third revolution—something that will fundamentally change how we live, work, and interact. It's like having all content available with just a prompt—a superpower if used correctly. It feels like ages since I didn't use AI daily, but it was just months ago. Things are moving rapidly: new models, startups, and companies appear constantly. Every week there's something new about AI, and it's hard to stay updated.
+AI feels like a true third revolution—something that will fundamentally change how we live, work, and interact. It's like having all content available with just a prompt—a superpower if used correctly. It feels like ages since I didn't use AI daily, but it was just months ago. Things are moving rapidly: new models, startups, and companies appear constantly. Every week there's something new about AI, and it's hard to stay updated. It is also a question of time that AI gets more sofisticated and better optimized for saving cost, power consumption and generating better results. No idea if we are going to go for a general AI agents or very and super specified AI with special capabilities.
 
 I also suspect we're in a bubble. Eventually, funding will dry up and some AI companies will disappear, just like the dotcom bubble. [History will repeat](https://jasonzweig.com/lessons-and-ideas-from-benjamin-graham-2/), and most AI companies aren't profitable or lack sustainable models—much like [Lucent Technologies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucent_Technologies) will cause issues in the system. But that doesn't matter. AI will prevail, and there will be two types of users: those who use AI and those who don't. Like during the early internet era, many people *didn't understand what the internet is*; like in the 1970s-80s, many people *didn't want to use computers because they were too complicated*. Now we can't imagine an architect without AutoCAD, a doctor without access to online medical databases, or a finance department without Excel. I want to emphasize my post [Some thoughts about technology](https://khnumdev.github.io/tech,/philosophy/2023/12/30/tech_thoughts.html) again: barely 15 years ago, video calls from mobile phones weren't possible.