Foundations First: Why AI Assistants Still Need a Human Driver

I went through a phase where I thought I could skip learning SvelteKit properly. I had an LLM. I'd describe what I wanted, paste the output into my project, and move on. Components, routes, database queries. It all looked right. Then something broke. A page was loading data on the server but the component wasn't reactive. The LLM kept suggesting fixes using $: syntax. Svelte 5 doesn't use $: anymore. It uses runes. The LLM didn't know the difference, and neither did I. That's when it hit me. I wasn't building anything. I was assembling code I couldn't debug.