AI Won't Stop Itself From Being Stupid - That's YOUR Job

Everyone says you don't need developers anymore. Coding is a dying art. AI writes better code than humans. Anyone can ship software now. Just describe what you want and let the model handle it. The AI companies love this narrative. They should. It's great for token sales. Here's what "just let AI handle it" actually looks like in a production use case - data enrichment for Revenue Operations. None of these are edge cases. All of them are expensive. And every single one is invisible to someone who handed the problem to AI and walked away. Top traps of AI-produced data analysis code Rate limit cascade What you see: The pipeline is quietly working away. What's actually happening: 200+ failed API calls hammering a rate-limited endpoint with zero backoff. Every retry is immediate. Every failure is silent. You walk away thinking progress is being made. You come back to nothing. You're starting over. Playwright spinning up for a text fetch What you see: Results come back. What's actually happ