The Breaking Point at 2:15 AM
Three months ago, at 2:15 AM, I almost threw my mechanical keyboard through my office window. I was trying to refactor a messy React state machine, and ChatGPT had just handed me back a truncated block of code filled with the dreaded comment: `// Rest of your logic remains the same`.
That single line cost me forty-five minutes of manual line-by-line diffing. It silently omitted three crucial edge-case state transitions I had spent all afternoon building.
That miserable night was my breaking point. I was paying twenty dollars a month for a tool that acted like an overworked freelancer cutting corners to catch