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Could not agree more! I have 20+ years experience and use Cursor/Sonnet daily. It saves huge amounts of time.

But I can’t imagine this tool in the hands of someone who does not have a solid understanding of programming.

You need to understand when to push back and why. It’s like doing mini code reviews all the time. LLMs are very convincing and will happily generate garbage with the utmost authority.

Don’t trust and absolutely verify.




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