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The danger of glamourizing one shots

Scott Hanselman · 4 Feb 2026

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  1. People should not be judging AI-augmented coding by "1 shots."
  2. It's not trivial to one shot something unique, because programming is the art of making the ambiguous incredibly specific through sculpting.
  3. As high-level programming cedes way to the prose compiler, making your goals and specs well understood to the ambiguity loop and showing good judgment is going to matter more than ever.

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