I bogged me that it says that he spend loads of time upfront planning but not with cursor. You can do the same with cursor, and on my experience, they are about the same. When they reach certain level of complexity of a medium sized project they start messing up.

I agree. It’s just not a fair comparison. But then the article is written by Kino with the author “sprinkling in” sentences, so I guess I can’t really expect much.