AI Did It in 12 Minutes. It Took Me 10 Hours to Fix It

A developer used an AI tool to generate a PHP media uploader in 12 minutes, but spent 10 hours fixing and restructuring the resulting 5,000 lines of spaghetti code. While AI helped complete a long-postponed project, the cleanup process involved extensive debugging, permission fixes, and rewriting to create a more maintainable 1,254-line application.