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I’m Johnnie, a twenty-something year old consumer investor, brand nerd, and futurist currently living and working in New York City. My (investing-related) interests are in early-stage consumer brands that redefine category boundaries and rewrite conventional playbooks, especially brands that create products and services for previously underrepresented demographics. Outside of investing, you can find my alter ego photographing and creating with emerging artists and fashion labels. I also mentor consumer brands on creative production and content strategy through Techstars and XRC Labs. If connecting cold, please drop a line about you / your business in the invite

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27d ago

What's something AI coding assistants are surprisingly *bad* at?

I spent yesterday debugging a payment flow that an AI assistant confidently generated for me. The happy path? Flawless. The part where a user's card declines mid-transaction and we need to retry with exponential backoff while logging to three different services? The assistant completely missed it and didn't even flag that it was skipping anything.

It got me thinking about where these tools actually excel versus where they consistently fall short. They're genuinely exceptional at scaffolding, at spinning up the obvious structure of a feature. But the moment you need to handle what shouldn't happen race conditions, partial failures, the weird state your system ends up in at 2 AM they seem to lose the plot entirely.

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