It’s the same for me. Even if it technically work, the solution looks overly complicated and is hard to parse, which makes me think it will be hard to maintain.

This happened to me last week. I went back and forth with the AI for 2 days. My company then ran out of tokens for the months, so I just did it myself and came up with a solution that I feel is a lot more straightforward. That, plus all finishing touches, and testing were done by noon.

I find more and more that AI turns into a procrastination machine. I’ve only found it useful for things that are so basic the AI one-shot it, low stakes (logic issues won’t be a major issue), and completely independent, where I don’t really have to worry about maintaining it. For anything else I’m finding more and more than it’s faster to not try and have AI do anything.