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It is absolutely terrifying to watch tools like Cursor generate so much code. Maybe not a great analogy, but it feels like driving with Tesla FSD in New Delhi in the middle of rush hour. If you let it run ahead of you, the amount of code to review will be overwhelming. I've also encountered situations where it is unable to pass tests for code it wrote.

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Like TikTok AI Coding breaks human psychology. It is engrained in us that if we have a tool that looks right enough and highly productive we will over-apply it to our work. Even diligent programmers will be lured to accepting giant commits without diligent review and they will pay for it.

Of course yeeting bad code into production with a poor review process is already a thing. But this will scale that bad code as now you have developers who will have grown up on it.

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