[atemerev]

By practice. It requires some skill too, to constantly remove slop and keep the project from deteriorating. Usually by suggesting good architecture, asking for tests, and rewriting / cleaning up some bad code endlessly. Still much faster than manual development.

[brcmthrowaway]

But how exactly !

[csallen]

1. Download Cursor

2. Tell it to make you something

3. Get frustrated when it doesn't work

4. Think about how to revise your prompt

5. Repeat from step #2

[atemerev]

I prefer Aider, but that's a matter of taste.

[brcmthrowaway]

Any free versions of Cursor or Aider?

[atemerev]

Aider is free and open source, Cursor is free. You can connect Aider to various free models on OpenRouter, some of them state of the art.