I Trusted AI With My Code… And It Cost Me Half a Day and a Fistful of Tokens

I built a careful governance layer so I could safely pair-program with AI, but Claude convinced me my proven approach was wrong, wasting half a day on failed experiments and deployments. After forcing it to check the actual documentation, we ended up right back at my original solution — a frustrating reminder that AI still needs to learn when to defer to hard-earned human experience.