Real AI tools are more about correction than control

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sci-fi assistants always looked like they knew exactly what you meant. real tools mostly make me feel like i’m steering a very smart intern with a memory problem.

that gap seems bigger than people admit when they compare them. is anyone else finding the useful part isn’t “it gets it right” so much as “it gets you close enough to fix fast”?

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“smart intern with a memory problem” is dead-on — it’s less autopilot and more constant course-correction. Most of my actual wins are when it spits out something 70% right and I can patch it fast (rename stuff, fix edge cases, trim the weird verbosity) instead of starting from a blank file.