Comment by pigpop

>I went back to TDD, to my PRs with just 5 files changed. To my 2-line PR descriptions that were straight to the point.

It baffles me that someone who prefers TDD can't just stick to writing the tests and then using them to validate and constrain the AI's output. Only making a small number of changes per PR is easy to enforce as well. The problem here doesn't seem to be using AI, it seems to be a lack of discipline in how you use AI.

>There were tasks I could have done in 20 minutes easily, that took 5 minutes of an AI agent, and then 2 days for me to review.

This shouldn't happen at all if you constrain the problem. I've seen it happen many times when you just YOLO a vague spec and just keep prodding it to continue without paying attention to what is being done. If you have a well defined task that should only take 20 minutes of your time then it should only take 10 minutes to review the small amount of output. If the PR is 1000 lines changed then something went wrong, throw it away and rewrite your specification.