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YesCursor, Claude · 22 Feb 2026

What I do know is that throwing myself fully into it has secured my job for the foreseeable future because I'm faster than I've ever been

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In the thread “How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution”, replying to this comment

Helped: Extensive dictated prompts and constant experimentation with AI flow.

Got in the way: Initial skepticism due to Cursor breaking CI with sloppy code.

… Also to be fair I had lost my pure love of coding itself, so I am in a slightly weird spot with this, too. What I do know is that throwing myself fully into it has secured my job for the foreseeable future because I'm faster than I've ever been and people look to me for guidance on how they can use these tool. I think with AI adoption the tallest trees will be cut last -- or at least I'm banking on it.