AI Did It in 12 Minutes. It Took Me 10 Hours to Fix It (idiallo.com) AI

Ibrahim Diallo describes using an AI LLM to generate a PHP media-upload manager for his blog, which initially produced “spaghetti code” and several integration bugs. After getting it working, he spent about 10 more hours rewriting and restructuring the project to make it maintainable, cutting the codebase from roughly 5,000 lines to about 1,254. He concludes that while AI can speed up first drafts, cleanup and understanding the code still take substantial effort.