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I used AI. It worked. I hated it.: Taggart Tech
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I used Claude Code to build a tool I needed. It worked great, but I was miserable. I need to reckon with what it means.
I'm as anti-genAI as it gets. And yet, this past month, I have used generative coding to complete a project. It works. I hated making it. The Apologia Let's get this out of the way: my feelings about using generative models at all are...fraught. And if you are ready to call me a monster or a hypocrite right now, I understand. I'm navigating some tensions about this and I fully own that I may have made the wrong choices here. My actual day job, the one that puts food on the table for my family, has metamorphosed into an "AI security expert" role, in which I am not only responsible for testing A
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