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Stop Fighting Cursor: Treat It Like a Junior Dev, Not a Magic Wand

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I installed Cursor about two weeks ago with high expectations. I wanted to build a side project in a weekend. Instead, I spent the first day deleting code that the AI generated. It was confident, it was fast, and it was completely wrong. The problem was not the tool. The problem was my prompt. I wa…

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  1. 2026-09-02 11:00 · DEV Community — AI
    Stop Fighting Cursor: Treat It Like a Junior Dev, Not a Magic Wand

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