Some of my thoughts on the current AI code editors

If you've ever coded before 2024, you would understand how difficult coding used to be. The amount of documentation that you would have had to weave through just to build something essentially made you an expert on whatever framework it was. Fast forward to 2024, we live in an era where an AI lives inside your code editor. As an avid Cursor AI user, I have nothing but praise for the Anysphere-made product. However, based on my experience thus far, I take issue with the people that say that AI developers can already replace human developers. I am sorry to pop the bubble that you all are living in, but that is simply not the case.

Yesterday, I was trying to build an MVP for a little side project of mine. Usually, I would find tutorials on youtube or medium to get an idea on how to implement a feature that I find useful. In my specific case yesterday, I wanted to build an app that enabled multi-user real time updates on a document like google docs. Instead of going through my usual SOP, I decided to give AI a try. I hopped onto my trusty AI composer and instructed it to build me the app with highly detailed implementation descriptions. The result? 4 hours down the drain with a broken app that I could not fix.

This is just a reminder that AI is there to make you a better coder, not become your brain :D

Keep grinding guys