Bolt just destroyed my project

[mindplay-dk]

Just tried out Bolt today and to be honest I don't think this should be GA yet.

I asked it to make a very small refactoring - it attempted to, and broke the code. Oh well, this happens with any AI.

It then noticed a run-time error and prompted me with an "attempt to fix" button, which I pressed - upon which, it set out and refactored the entire project from single 100-line file into 5 different submodules, which is not what I wanted... just opinionated nonsense like "each file has a separate responsibility", which has nothing to do with the problem it was supposed to fix. It then proceded to litter the code with run-time type-checks, null-checks, and other nonsense, explaining that

These changes make the code more maintainable, easier to test, and fix the immediate error while preventing similar issues in the future.

Which sure enough sounds like "sh_t programmers say", yet, alas, it did not fix the error, it just introduced a lot of useless noise having absolutely nothing to do with the problem at hand.

But the real kicker is I opened this project in Bolt using the prompt that appears in StackBlitz, being just curious to see what it was - and all the changes carried over from Bolt into StackBlitz, and my project is destroyed... and there is no history or undo! 😭

I have an earlier version of the code in a Claude prompt, from where I will recover my code.

And then go back to using Claude because what the F_C is this sloppy tool supposed to be good for? really. ☹️

[bastien509]

you should have a basic knowlegde to do it

[mindplay-dk]

basic knowledge? of what?