Most People Use AI Like Google. That's Why It Sucks.

For the first month I treated Copilot like a junior engineer with ambition and no guardrails. It would write code I never asked for. I'd be halfway through a function, and Copilot would leap ahead ... creating new methods, suggesting whole classes, trying to take initiative like a junior who wants to prove themselves. The breaking point came during a refactor. It would output code that didn't just ignore our style guide ... it created variables named R and T . It duplicated logic I'd already abs