Has AI Programming Killed the Vitality, to You?

Question

Lately, I use cursor in order to build stuff. But I find because of it, I don't actually pay attention much to what I'm building and/or have the same intimate deep level of familiarity I would otherwise have.As the project grows, I feel like I care less and less about it because I don't know exactly how it works.Unfortunately, because I know the tool exists I keep using it, kind of like an addict - I feel like I don't really think much anymore. I just Claude/Cursor stuff and decidedly not care.Has anyone run into this?

aboardRat4 · Accepted Answer

Every time I hear how "AI" has changed everything in programming, I keep asking: "why, after three years of AI hype, desktop Linux is still broken?".
If AI is such a revolutionary thing that you can build software without attention, where is my Wayland CJK input method, where is HDR, why Intel GPU drivers still has issues with LSPCON, why is there no Lineage OS for my phone, why is SPICE deprecated in RHEL 9, why is Wine's APPDB compatibility still not 100%?
If "AI" can do that much programming for you that the only thing needed to have code running is someone's willpower to order it to finally done the job, then where are all those things? Surely, despite Linux desktop users being measured in millions, not billions, there are enough people who care about those features enough to tell the AI "just do it".

sanswork · Answer

I've recently started using cursor and I pretty much just use it as a smart autocomplete. Having seen the larger blocks of code generated I certainly wouldn't trust it to generate most of a program.This sounds more like a PEBKAC issue than a problem with the tools. Maybe you're just burned out or something.