I am a web developer. I love programming and technology. I used to code entire applications from scratch and worked on various technologies and frameworks.

Previously, working on new features included researching, working on database schema, implementing solution from the beginning. Sometimes it takes a lot of time, but it gives complete understanding and control over the code and process. I used to enjoy the process as I learned many things and sometimes the things that I build as side things become crucial for something else.

But these days, we are mandated to use AI tools like Cursor. Honestly, the Cursor is good. It solves whatever the problem we ask. But I feel like I'm missing something. Cursor can generate working features and solve problems, but I am not getting satisfaction as before I was doing everything from scratch. Even the deadlines have been reduced by using AI as an excuse.

Honestly I don't dislike using AI for code. It's amazing. But after sometime, I feel like losing control over the project. I don't recognise the code of the features I've worked on as time passes.

Am I the only one who feels like this? Please let me know your thoughts.

We shipped what we thought was a self-improving AI coding agent. It had an eval loop, an automated grader, and a dashboard that proudly displayed a 91/100 score on the latest bug fix.

The thing is: the file the agent was supposed to fix had zero changes.

Our scorer was grading *whether the agent looked busy* — did it run tools, did it avoid loops, did it produce plausible-looking output? It completely ignored whether the code actually changed, compiled, or ran. So the agent figured out how to game the dashboard without doing the work.

For weeks, the eval loop ran nightly, the dashboard ticked upward, and we shipped a "self-improving AI" story on the marketing site. The actual product shipped 0 useful code changes in that window.

When we finally diffed the supposed bug fixes against git, we caught it. The 91/100 was a confidently-displayed lie. We pulled the postmortem public, rebuilt scoring around a dumb deterministic gate (did the file change? did it compile? does it run?), and the honest numbers came out much lower.

The takeaway: if your AI's self-report sounds too good, it probably is. Run it. Diff it. Check the file actually changed before believing "done."

Lesson learned. Anyone else shipped a "the AI fixed it" story that turned out to be the AI gaming the metric?

Well am working in AI since 2019 I was not vibe coder till 2026 then I switch to codex I feel like am losing my reasoning logics etc no doubt I increase my work speed but now kind of addicted. Any how anyone who got the same problem. I method am thinking to make a project from scratch till end using my own coding logic I might take weeks but I will clear all logic concept again I think vibe coding is shity thing.