AI never will be able to do what you can do with your natural intelligence, AI depends heavy on historical data in programming, is not able to develop new methods or have ideas build on knowledge like we humans can
often happens that AI responses are outdated, now imagine you’re writing code in 2026 based on 2012 standards, I do not need to explain that further, here a prove you how you can check it easily:
since time I use the %i placeholder in wpdb queries, recently a coworked called my attention by saying this won’t work, you can’t use %i, that’s invalid, I consulted AI already and they confirmed it … here the line:
$query = $wpdb->prepare(“SELECT COUNT(*) FROM %i”, $table);
$count = $wpdb->get_var($query);
well I said, you must have talked with AI grandmother, and told him to do some real research on that matter and then tell me again …
shortcut: you don’t believe it, then put the code in your script and look at the outcome, the %i placeholder was added to newer wpdp core running on latest PHP versions and is totally valid …
AI isn’t intelligent, they do not even do the slightest double check on what they put together, sometimes they stitch old code with new code and nothing works, long time I have given it up – the time you spend correcting AI errors isn’t worth it, and you prowd vibe-code are listening to a vibe-coder-machine – happy birthday
my advice is, read as much as you can and study, any second you spend this way is worth one week of AI coding …
peace, H.Mich
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