@kentcdodds: I used Fable and Grok 4.5 (in two separate chats) to go find all the hilariously bad AI-generated code in my codebase a…

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The author recounts using Fable and Grok 4.5 to identify and remove poor AI-generated code from their codebase.

I used Fable and Grok 4.5 (in two separate chats) to go find all the hilariously bad AI-generated code in my codebase and clean it up. Check mate "read the code"-ers
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I used Fable and Grok 4.5 (in two separate chats) to go find all the hilariously bad AI-generated code in my codebase and clean it up.

Check mate “read the code”-ers

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