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What My Dad Taught Me About AI Coding in the 90s

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Mike's father built neural-network-assisted circuit board design tools in the 1990s, years before the term 'AI coding' was common. The post traces the throughline from those early systems to today's LLM coding assistants and argues the core lesson has not changed: verify the output, never trust it blindly. A personal essay grounded in engineering history.

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