I Lost $3 in 20 Minutes

I took AI for the ultimate test.

I asked it to search my code base for bugs

I took a lot of pride in this code, all hand rolled, by the sweat of my brow. It was mine and it was good.

AI found 15 bugs

I was devastated

So I went to the first bug, and asked for a unit test. It produced a unit test in mere moments.

I ran the tests and saw it. A broken test. Property test of undefined. Rookie error

Ashamed, but determined I set forth to fix these bugs as penance. So I cracked open Vscode getting ready to edit this typescript script

But... The code seemed correct. Weird.

So I checked the test, Claude faked bad data. The setup could never happen

Wtf

It's a lie, the whole thing.

I checked every bug AI found. Every line item was not a bug. Everyone of them just some condition that cannot exist due to asserts or previous if statements

What an amazing $3s and 20 minutes spent

Normally when I waste time at least I learn something