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If you ever tried to use ai for code you'd know how dumb it was.
Generally it's ok, it'll get some stuff done but if it thinks something is a certain way you can't convince it otherwise. It hallucinates documentation, admits it made it up then carries on telling you to use the made up parts of the code.
Infuriating.
Like I said though, generally pretty good at helping you learn a new language if you have knowledge to start with.
People learning from scratch are cooked, it makes crazy decisions sometimes that will compound over time and leave you with trash.
Oh dear God yes ... my employer wants us to use Cursor. I've tried twice now. It can't debug C# unit tests. In attempting to configure itself to do that it hosed itself so badly that I had to uninstall Cursor AND Code then wipe my system of IDE leftovers and reinstall both. Attempt 2 was to have it go through a rather large class file to make sure there were newlines in the right place, and remove excess newlines. It totally hosed the class file and I had to revert. It then apologized profusely and admitted it really shouldn't be used to make direct changes to files.
It's ok if you want to get a nudge in the right direction when you're suck. But that's about it.