i was stuck on an edmonds-karp implementation recently and realized no amount of autocomplete can replace the manual work of tracing residual edges. u rly gotta
brute force the logic yourself to actually understand how the flow works through the graph.
ai is just a tool, not a brain and relying on it too early might be why some new devs are struggling with
fundamental algorithms like max-flow. anyone else feel like we're losing that essential debugging muscle memory?
more here:
https://dev.to/alvin_james/ai-coding-assistants-arent-replacing-developers-theyre-changing-what-junior-means-1h17