On the few times I've used Cursor or Claude Code for tasks beyond simple tests or features, I found myself spending more time correcting their errors than if I had written the code from scratch.

I like Cursor and use it daily, but none of its models are even close to being able to take nontrivial work. Besides, it quickly gets expensive if you’re using the smarter models.

IMO these AI tools will become to software engineers what CAD is to mechanical and civil engineers. Can they work without it? Sure, but why would they?

This is because Cursor is not sending the full context even when you drag and drop things inside the chat box.

I started getting worse results from Cursor too. Then, Gemini 2.5 Pro dropped with 1M context, I repomixed my project, popped it into AIStudio, and asked it make me prompts I can feed into Cursor to fix the issues I have.

Gemini has the whole picture and the prompts it creates tell Cursor which items to change how.