One of the hardest adjustments to AI coding tools has nothing to do with prompting. It's overcoming your attachment to code.
When you write code by hand, you accumulate emotional investment with every line. Throwing it away feels like a waste. So you keep patching, extending, and defending code in reviews that should have been discarded.
Use AI to break this pattern and don't fall into the attachment trap. Code becomes cheap enough to be treated as exploration rather than construction. Prototype quickly, build your mental model, and find the simplest solution that solves your problem. Then start fresh with clarity.
The developers who get the best results aren't the fastest prompters. They're the ones who know when to start over, and when to walk away entirely.
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