I wanted to provide an update on my AI project experience. When I started two months ago, I would have told you I could complete my project before I went to sleep - Deepseek was that good at doing exactly what I wanted...  Over the last few weeks I've struggled to make much progress just like when I was coding manually.  When I first told it what I wanted, it designed it perfectly.   Then I started to add features and that is where the problem started. DS would write a function a different way than it wrote for me a day before (example:  passing a parameter in post body vs querystring) and then my code would break.  Rather than fixing what I knew was the issue, I wanted DS to recognize it.  It did, but only after I provided fresh affected code and/or table definitions.   Since I used DS to code things I had no idea of (event handlers on browser clicks for example), it would tell me I was missing this and add it to that, but then later it may tell me to add the same this to a different that, duplicating functions and leading to troubleshooting anxiety.   Also, every now and then DS will give me code that contains a missing closing tag... I wanted AI to code this entire project based on my input.  I continue to believe that AI is great for mundane tasks like syntax or logic checking, but it cannot be used as a substitute for overall project development.   If I wasn't a coder before, I would have no idea what to ask or tell DS.    Those of you who are waiting on some features I promised; I still feel I can complete it by the end pf this month.
I wanted to provide an update on my AI project experience. When I started two months ago, I would have told you I could complete my project before I went to sleep - Deepseek was that good at doing exactly what I wanted...  Over the last few weeks I've struggled to make much progress just like when I was coding manually.  When I first told it what I wanted, it designed it perfectly.   Then I started to add features and that is where the problem started. DS would write a function a different way than it wrote for me a day before (example:  passing a parameter in post body vs querystring) and then my code would break.  Rather than fixing what I knew was the issue, I wanted DS to recognize it.  It did, but only after I provided fresh affected code and/or table definitions.   Since I used DS to code things I had no idea of (event handlers on browser clicks for example), it would tell me I was missing this and add it to that, but then later it may tell me to add the same this to a different that, duplicating functions and leading to troubleshooting anxiety.   Also, every now and then DS will give me code that contains a missing closing tag... I wanted AI to code this entire project based on my input.  I continue to believe that AI is great for mundane tasks like syntax or logic checking, but it cannot be used as a substitute for overall project development.   If I wasn't a coder before, I would have no idea what to ask or tell DS.    Those of you who are waiting on some features I promised; I still feel I can complete it by the end pf this month.

I wanted to provide an update on my AI project experience. When I started two months ago, I would have told you I could complete my project before I went to sleep - Deepseek was that good at doing exactly what I wanted...  Over the last few weeks I've struggled to make much progress just like when I was coding manually.  When I first told it what I wanted, it designed it perfectly.   Then I started to add features and that is where the problem started. DS would write a function a different way than it wrote for me a day before (example:  passing a parameter in post body vs querystring) and then my code would break.  Rather than fixing what I knew was the issue, I wanted DS to recognize it.  It did, but only after I provided fresh affected code and/or table definitions.   Since I used DS to code things I had no idea of (event handlers on browser clicks for example), it would tell me I was missing this and add it to that, but then later it may tell me to add the same this to a different that, duplicating functions and leading to troubleshooting anxiety.   Also, every now and then DS will give me code that contains a missing closing tag... I wanted AI to code this entire project based on my input.  I continue to believe that AI is great for mundane tasks like syntax or logic checking, but it cannot be used as a substitute for overall project development.   If I wasn't a coder before, I would have no idea what to ask or tell DS.    Those of you who are waiting on some features I promised; I still feel I can complete it by the end pf this month.

I wanted to provide an update on my AI project experience. When I started two months ago, I would have told you I could complete my project before I went to sleep - Deepseek was that good at doing exactly what I wanted...  Over the last few weeks I've struggled to make much progress just like when I was coding manually.  When I first told it what I wanted, it designed it perfectly.   Then I started to add features and that is where the problem started. DS would write a function a different way than it wrote for me a day before (example:  passing a parameter in post body vs querystring) and then my code would break.  Rather than fixing what I knew was the issue, I wanted DS to recognize it.  It did, but only after I provided fresh affected code and/or table definitions.   Since I used DS to code things I had no idea of (event handlers on browser clicks for example), it would tell me I was missing this and add it to that, but then later it may tell me to add the same this to a different that, duplicating functions and leading to troubleshooting anxiety.   Also, every now and then DS will give me code that contains a missing closing tag... I wanted AI to code this entire project based on my input.  I continue to believe that AI is great for mundane tasks like syntax or logic checking, but it cannot be used as a substitute for overall project development.   If I wasn't a coder before, I would have no idea what to ask or tell DS.    Those of you who are waiting on some features I promised; I still feel I can complete it by the end pf this month.