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The companion checklist to the video about the developer who mass-deleted 3 months of AI-generated code. He shipped a side project almost entirely with AI, then hit one feature he could not add — because he no longer understood his own codebase. He deleted 70% of it and rewrote it in two weeks: half the lines, every one his. This is the checklist so you never have to. Inside: the one rule that changes everything (treat AI code as a first draft, never the final answer — read it, understand it, cut it in half); the 5 over-engineering smells to delete on sight (a wrapper class around a single function call, a config system for one configuration, an event bus for a direct call, interfaces with one implementation, enterprise folder structure for a solo project); the 4-habit workflow that prevents the debt (plan first in a PLAN.md, work in 10-minute loops, review every diff, explain-then-keep); the ownership test (can you explain a line without pointing at the prompt that wrote it?); and 4 copy-paste prompts that force simplicity, prove understanding, and plan before they build. The takeaway: if you cannot explain your code without the prompt, you do not own it — you are just hosting it.
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