AI Coding Tip 012 - Understand All Your Code

You own the code. Own and understand what it does. TL;DR: Never ship AI-generated code you don't understand — ask until you do. Common Mistake ❌ You ask an AI agent to implement a feature. It returns 200 lines of code. You run the tests. They pass. You commit and push. You think you are the best 'agentic-coder' in the world. But you never read the code. Three weeks later, a security issue appears in production. The AI introduced subtle bugs you could have caught in two minutes. You didn't catch it because you never looked. You're accountable but don't understand what the code does, and you can't explain it to others. There are many fancy video tutorials on using agents without reviewing the code. Remember, there must always be a human in the loop. Problems Addressed 😔 You lose control of your own codebase. You can't debug code you don't understand. You ship vulnerabilities without knowing they exist. You can't explain your own code in a code review. You build a dependency on AI that m