I’ve been using Cursor (IDE + integrated AI Agent) for the past couple of weeks now and how it feels so far: it is good but it is only as good as your capability of giving it the right direction and the right context. What I feel is left unsaid so far:

Coding skill and the skill of giving coding direction are two different skills.

It is like what it takes to bake a cookie and what it takes to lead a team of chefs to bake a cookie requires different skill set.

In which now i sorta realize why some programmers are having a hard time with this bunch of AI Agent stuff; having great programming skill isn’t necessary mean you have great managerial / directing skill. It is very likely that in many cases, explaining how to do certain thing took higher effort than doing the damn thing on their own.

Now here’s the interesting part: now technically everyone can have the same exact AI Agent with the same exact capability. Still, what people can achieve with it will differ.

It’s like everyone has 24 hours in a day, but what can day do with it differs.

Or everyone (who’s not disabled) can speak, but what they can achieve with it differs.

Having a thing is one thing.

What you can do with a thing is different matters entirely.