If you sit down and write that game by hand you will not only finish it in a week but also learn a lot of things along the way and perhaps even discover something about the game and you did not imagine. That is how programming works. It is a search problem.

Also this is a game has very simple mechanics I am sure you can generate as easily with Cursor or some other tools.

More deeply than programming being a search problem, programming is a means to an end.

If the end is a combination of education and product discovery, then yeah maybe, although those are also dimensions of personal productivity that can be amplified by leveraging AI tools.

If the end goals of programming is leveraging computer automation, then nobody actually cares how the automation infrastructure gets established, and the less distractions with low value implementation complexity, the better.

Cursor has access to the latest models so it should be equivalent, right?

Or is there some other AI usage described in this article that is not supported by cursor?