Cursor is actually insane idk what to feel
Finally bit the bullet and paid for Cursor this weekend to build a side project using the Anthropic API. It literally scaffolded my entire backend in about two hours and I'm just staring at my screen wondering what we are even doing at our day jobs anymore. Like I spent the whole of last week at my org just arguing over PR comments for a basic CRUD API and writing boilerplate tests. Meanwhile this thing just ingested my prompt and gave me a working auth flow, database schema and api routes in the time it takes me to order lunch. Ngl it feels amazing to build this fast but also kinda terrifying? I've been a dev for 6 years and I pride myself on knowing the deep technical stuff but watching Claude just spit out solid code makes me feel like a dinosaur. Bhai if this gets any better in the next couple of years I don't know how junior devs will even survive or learn the basics. We might just become prompt managers. Anyone else feeling this existential dread or is it just me overthinking a weekend project...
Nahi bhai … mujhe mere client ke requirements samajh mai nahi ata … they push huge amount of data in graphql, from graphql they fkng load the data in sql. they really fked up the transition… they really dont know how to filter out the data… i hope AI gets that powerful to collect the requirements from clients mind who have frequent mood swings🙂↕️…
What? AI is best for frequently changing requirements and throwaway codes. Imagine throwing away code you wrote for a week because requirements changed.
You work with graphql? What's the scale?
haha bhai true. AI can scaffold a whole backend but it definitely can't fix bad client requirements yet. I guess our jobs are safe there at least lol. REPLY
Yea but what's next though? The stakes are really low for your side project, so it feels magical when AI stitches up code for you, and even deepseek v4 flash is good enough for stuff like this.
But would you do the same when working on Amazon's APIs? Now the narrative changes, because it directly affects your performance and might even get you fired.
