AI Wrote My Code, But I Still Own the Bug

The Hook Last week, I pushed a feature that worked beautifully on the first try. No breakpoints. No frantic Stack Overflow searches. No 2 a.m. commit messages full of regret. ChatGPT wrote 80% of it. And honestly? That scared me more than it impressed me. Not because the code was bad—it wasn’t. It was clean, well-structured, and even included error handling I would have added later. The problem was something else entirely. I didn’t truly understand one critical loop inside it. And three days...