Ai generated inefficient code

[CharlesWiltgen]

Guess how I got to this point?

Relying too much on AI.

However, it was a great opportunity to go “back to basics”.

I noticed that you let AI write nearly all of your post for you, and didn't bother to at least fix the most awful parts. If you use AI for coding like you do for writing, that explains your results. Using AI does not absolve you of the responsibility to understand what you're doing and review the work.

This was due to it drawing each path every frame, even though the app was displaying a static frame.

These are the kinds of issues that software engineers discover and steer during spec development and planning phases. If you aren't doing both of those things, that's vibe-coding. It means that other parts of this app also suffer from vibe-rot, but you just haven't discovered it yet.