The cons of AI-assisted development

I leverage anything that makes me faster and recently I’ve been playing around with different AI code generation tools.

They are impressive toys, but still have a way to go before we can trust the code they produce.

Today for example, AI was completely convinced that the best way to send transactional email from CloudFlare pages was through an integration CloudFlare has with MailChannels.

The problem is …

MailChannels ended support for CloudFlare on August 31st 2024, just a few months ago.

I went on Google, found plenty of resources showing how to set that up, so I was confident it should work.

Until I went to the source and found it was shut down recently.

AI can be a good companion, but you better review what it spews out or you might be in trouble.

Yours,

Taj