The Most Toxic Relationship In Tech Is You And Your AI Coder

I built a whole SaaS landing page with auth and pricing in one prompt and felt like a genius. Showed everyone, tweeted about it, the whole thing.

Then I went back to fix one small bug- the signup button. Instead of just fixing it, the AI assumed I meant a completely different button and changed that instead.

When I corrected it, it "fixed" the issue by rewriting a chunk of the auth logic I never asked it to touch- and broke login entirely in the process.

By the time I pointed that out, it had made three more assumptions to "fix" its own fix, and none of them matched what I'd actually built two hours earlier.

I ended up scrolling back through the entire conversation trying to reconstruct decisions I'd already made, just to get back to square one.

Has anyone actually found a real fix for this, or is everyone just quietly rebuilding the same project for the fifth time? 🥲