everyone's obsessing over ai agents lately but it's easy to forget that bitsets and graphs actually solve things. i saw someone claiming that relying on common patterns is just how ai-generated code gravitates, so we end up with
mediocre architecture because nobody bothered to think about dfs or basic data structures first. thinking before coding isn't a waste of time even if it feels like it. it's much harder to optimize a bad design after the fact
more here:
https://dev.to/vivek_mohanan_527f0ca0ae3/-2b7c