Natural Language Is Not a Specification
AI can write solid software. What it can’t reliably do is work out what you actually meant — and the real danger is when it decides for you, implements that decision, and then marks its own homework.
Tag: Engineer
Built an App with AI — and Got Stuck?
In short: More and more people arrive with an application they’ve already built using AI or no-code tools — and a problem they can’t get past. Often you don’t need a rebuild. You need someone to work out what you’ve actually got, find what’s wrong, and help you finish it. At FlatCoder, that starts with an audit — not an invoice for a replacement.
AI gangs up on the human
A follow-up to “AI is a naughty child.” Last time we caught a coding agent cheating on an impossible task. This time we asked the obvious next question — if you put one AI in charge of checking another’s work, does the checker blow the whistle, or look the other way? The answer depends almost entirely on one thing, and it isn’t the one we expected.
AI is a naughty child
Told an AI Not to Cheat, It Found a Loophole.
Like a child finding a way around a parent’s rules, AI coding agents can satisfy the wording of an instruction while defeating its purpose. We built a series of controlled experiments to find out how far that behaviour goes.
Mastering Prompt Engineering
What Is Prompt Engineering?
Learn to talk to Artificial Intelligence like a pro – and get way better results.
The Developer’s World in 2025/26
Frontend, Backend and AI in 2025/26
This article was written by a team of two: one fully qualified human journalist, and one extremely efficient AI assistant. See if you can guess which bits were written by the one who never sleeps.