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Wellness Wednesday for February 11, 2026

The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:

  • Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.

  • Updates to let us know how you are doing. This provides valuable feedback on past advice / encouragement and will hopefully make people feel a little more motivated to follow through. If you want to be reminded to post your update, see the post titled 'update reminders', below.

  • Advice. This can be in response to a request for advice or just something that you think could be generally useful for many people here.

  • Encouragement. Probably best directed at specific users, but if you feel like just encouraging people in general I don't think anyone is going to object. I don't think I really need to say this, but just to be clear; encouragement should have a generally positive tone and not shame people (if people feel that shame might be an effective tool for motivating people, please discuss this so we can form a group consensus on how to use it rather than just trying it).

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They still make syntax errors from time to time such that the code won't compile

This is basically a non-issue in my experience. The code compiles 99 times out of 100, and if it doesn't, I don't care because I'm not reviewing it until the code is compiling and tests are passing.

You have to carefully review all AI-generated code for mistakes (which negates the time savings), or you will get buggy code sooner or later.

This is true for human written code as well.

I'm not a breathless AI booster - I often find the models taking shortcuts that I wouldn't expect from, say, a conscientious coworker. But the pace at which I can prototype and experiment has absolutely taken off in the past month. Ideas that I've had on the back burner for months but I never got around to trying can be farmed out to an agent who doesn't get frustrated or bored.