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Speed is real but so is context drift – the AI breaks unrelated things while fixing others
Slav_fixflex on Hacker News
In the thread “Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects (2025)”
Helped: Building production software without being a developer.
Got in the way: Context drift causing AI to break unrelated code.
… I use AI agents (Claude, Windsurf) exclusively to build production software without being a developer myself. Speed is real but so is context drift – the AI breaks unrelated things while fixing others. Git became essential for me because of this.