cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/46091883
Though nobody expected it in the first place, AI is not perfect and can make mistakes (obviously 🙄) What’s your experience with this? I’d love to hear about it.
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2026
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Needless to say, the customer will most likely not be hankering after AI-based development in the future I guess
That's the one positive thing that came out of this project. :)
Fun fact: The project was also supposed to have a feature where the customer could add new pages with content and then decide where in the main menu those pages should appear.
WordPress internally uses a very basic system for assigning menu items - if you have ten menu items, they have an order that goes from 1 to 10. Number 1 is the first, 10 is the last - very simple (and stupid, because you can't add numbers in between to add new menu items on the fly).
The old fart (or the AI) wrote a system where the customer would just put in a number for the menu order. So if they created a page and then set it to be the fourth item in the menu...there already was a fourth item and WordPress decided at random where to put the menu item instead. Sometimes it was in the correct place. Most of the time it landed somewhere unintended..
What you would actually have to do here is look at all of the menu items, shove the new item into that list and then recalculate all of the numbers and save them. AI was not able to do it, no matter how you prompted it. We tried Gemini, Claude Code, ChatGPT, all of them shit the bed completely.
So there we were - this feature absolutely had to be implemented by a human. I didn't have the time for it, the old fart left and the student was completely useless without chatbots helping him out. That put the project on hold for six months until I was available again, but then I left. Whoopsie!
Fun fact #2: The company eventually went bankrupt because of projects like this and was bought out by a competitor.
1-2 punch the boss decided to save money by hiring a fresh grad likely used AI throughout his whole degree.
Seems a general thing, that AI is capable to generate LOTS of code with plausible-looking patterns, but incapable to understand and maintain any invariants or pre-conditions - not even the simplest ones.
Also matches nicely to dementia in that the code looks plausible and good on the local scale, but does not have a coherent global logic behind it - because that requires far more context, learning and actual logical reasoning, which these things can only simulate.
And is the competitor as dysfunctional as this was?
They're a little more competent, but that doesn't say much, given how extremely bad this project was run - it's probably very hard to do worse.
Fair enough