Eng leadership at my place are pushing Cursor pretty hard. It's great for banging out small tickets and improving the product incrementally kaizen-style, but it falls down with anything heavy.
I think it's weakening junior engineers' reasoning and coding abilities as they become reliant on it without having lived for long, or at all, in the before times. I think may be doing the same to me too.
Personally, and quietly, I have a major concern about the conflict of interest of Cursor deciding which files to add to context then charging you for the size of the context.
As with so many products, it's cheap to start with, you become dependent on it, then one day it's not cheap and you're fucked.
I think it's weakening junior engineers' reasoning and coding abilities as they become reliant on it without having lived for long, or at all, in the before times. I think may be doing the same to me too.
Personally, and quietly, I have a major concern about the conflict of interest of Cursor deciding which files to add to context then charging you for the size of the context.
As with so many products, it's cheap to start with, you become dependent on it, then one day it's not cheap and you're fucked.