Cursor made me a worse programmer, briefly

Here's a small, true thing about an AI tool that everyone oversells.

Cursor knows your whole codebase and edits across files, and I lean on that more than the feature list.

The moment it let me down was specific: burns tokens fast once you let it wander. That's the kind of failure you remember.

What changed my habit wasn't a new model. It was realizing I'd stopped double-checking, and the one time it mattered, it showed.

If you take one thing: the demo lies, the third try tells the truth.