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by footlose_3815 294 days ago
Not sure if it's been declared generally yet, but debugging is harder with AI.

Once your requests start to veer away from the direction you wanted (Especially if at-any-point, you transition to Cursor's "Free" mode, and it misunderstands and bulldozes all your previously-working features)

Not only is it harder, the physical stress caused by debugging with AI is something new. It gets some requests so-incredibly-wrong and follows directions totally-contrary, your brain forgets it's talking to a computer, and reacts in a way you would to a person who did all the wrong things here.

Version control has never been so important. I never use cursor without it. And even then, sometimes I just open the client, and a bunch of files changed.