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Big Chunk Working

Anti-Pattern

Problem

AI makes it easy to generate very large changes quickly.

What Goes Wrong

Ship big, sweeping changes as one large bulk.

Consequences: the work becomes hard to understand, hard to review, and easy to merge with hidden damage.

Symptoms: huge diffs, shallow reviews, uncertainty about what changed.

Example

This has happened often: some developers disappear for three months, claim they're working on something alone, and quietly spiral into frustration and burnout. Now this can happen in days, and the team members who have to review the code become the ones left depressed and frustrated.

Solution

Slice work smaller. Keep diffs explainable by humans, not just generated by machines.

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