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by ponector 379 days ago
There are lots of ways to use AI coding tools.

Cursor is great for fuzy search across the legacy project. Requests like "how you do X here" can help a lot while fixing old bug.

Or adding a documents. Commit description generated based on diff. Or adding a javadoc to your methods.

Whatever step in your workflow which consists of rewriting existing text but not creating anything new - use Cursor or similar AI tool.