Stop Using AI Only to Build—Start Using It to Break Your Systems

Most of us have gotten comfortable using AI to speed things up—write code, generate tests, clean up documentation. It’s become a productivity tool. But there’s another way to use AI that feels less obvious and, in many cases, more valuable: using it to challenge your system instead of helping it. If you’ve worked on real production systems, you already know this—things don’t usually break in obvious ways. They break in small, annoying, hard-to-reproduce ways. A value comes in with a slightly dif