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by techpineapple 448 days ago
I realized today while coding with cursor that AI seems to operate exactly the way I intuit it does, which is it acts like a junior engineer who works by copying existing code but doesn’t understand why. For a lot of tasks that works great, I do this a lot as a senior engineer, but I know when not to. you can’t let it run wild, because it doesn’t know when not too.
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> a junior engineer who works by copying existing code but doesn’t understand why

Given the amount of time I have spent fixing code written like this over the years it is not encouraging.