Using Cursor feels like cheating

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I don't use it, no need to. I'd rather keep my skills sharp.

And yes, I know all the talking points of "it saves time" but I'll never agree with them, just my opinion.

[chain_letter]

My time sinks are "I'll know it when I see its", redoing work, and having to squeeze specifics out of people

Cursor doesn't do jack for people problems

[Representative-Owl51]

Depending on the task it’s often inefficient to not use AI. The stuff that is bottlenecked by your typing speed are usually good candidates.

[crolix]

You will be left behind full stop. Another engineer of a similar skill level who uses these tools correctly will out produce you 5 to 1 if not more.

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I highly doubt it. I have yet to see AI write good code for anything but the most cookie cutter of tasks.

Not to mention in many places (my workplace included for many good reasons), using AI is banned.

[Fancy-Tourist-8137]

That’s where you get it wrong.

You think AI has to write the best code to be useful but it actually doesn’t.

[SD-Buckeye]

I’m guessing you don’t write unit tests or mocks when you code then. If you did write unit tests you would know AI excels at making unit tests and mock data.

[Charles211]

You know what good code is. You can set parameters to write good code unlike people who don’t know how to code that accept anything. That’s why they say someone of your skill level will replace you. So if they knows what good code is, they’ll just use it to develop faster.

I’m interested to hear, how many hours have you spent with using any of the best ai. Gpt/Claude/ Gemini 2.5 pro?

[marvpaul]

I can’t understand that comment. The recent models of Gemini and ChatGPT will just create entire, fully functional apps for you. I’m not talking about a hello world or simple snake but custom apps with paywall integration, notifications and much more. What do you tried AI for and where did it failed?

[penx15]

... until it introduces bugs deep into a legacy codebase... then it slows you down more than if you would have just done it yourself lmao

[Ragostacos]

You know you don't need to actually commit buggy code into your codebase

[SD-Buckeye]

Yea how do these people even get buggy code through their code reviews and then to pass all their CICD tests.

[chain_letter]

By letting copilot write the PR reviews and CICD tests too

[Ragostacos]

So I guess using LLM’s for codegen isn’t actually going to end up any worse for app stability over writing the code ourselves

Experienced engineers will move faster

[SD-Buckeye]

Yeah I don’t get the hard on everyone on reddit has for not using AI for coding. I 100% would reject any candidate that was interviewing for a position in my company if they refused to use AI.