it's only really in the last few months I've started to "trust" AI to do a better job than I can within given time constraints
alertchecker on Hacker News
In the thread “Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding”, replying to this comment
Helped: Cursor rules built from past errors and checking functionality over code style.
Got in the way: Code became sprawling and only maintainable by AI in personal projects.
I've been coding professionally for almost 30 years and it's only really in the last few months I've started to "trust" AI to do a better job than I can within given time constraints - but with a big caveat - as the article points out, the AI needs to be kept on track and questioned about its approach, told about inconsistencies etc. To aid with that it helps to have a lot of Cursor rules that guide the approach - built up over time, mostly based on seeing what AI didn't get right. …