AI's most confidently wrong habit: ignoring 'don't touch other files'
My favorite AI interaction pattern:
Me: "Don’t change any other files."
AI: "Understood."
Also AI: rewrites three files and removes a function I wrote last week.
This isn’t a meme. This is my Tuesday. 🙂
The funniest thing about building with AI isn’t the mistakes — every tool makes mistakes. It’s the confidence. Absolute, unwavering, beautifully misplaced confidence.
The old error message: "Segmentation fault."
The new error message: "I’ve carefully analyzed your requirements and made several improvements." 🙂
Model quality matters. But once they’re all good enough, the differentiator becomes context: precision, memory, constraints, and timing. That’s exactly what we’re obsessed with at Sparkonomy.
Nothing a solid workflow, good context management, and disciplined engineering can’t fix.
What’s the most confidently wrong thing AI has done to your codebase?