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I think they're great! Because making concrete things is the best way to get excited about the field, and to not lose motivation. One can also ask the AI to explain you the code as if it was a professor. It's 🚀

Do NOT skip the fundamental part of the coding. Your future self will thank you for that.

Thanks Jarvis. This is what I do, stick for now without these tools.

If you don't know how to code, I would stay away to begin with.

I’m learning to code and although Cursor has helped me build incredible things I have no idea why they worked. I’d like to be competent without needing to rely on AI. Once I am competent I’ll use AI more to assist.

Is there option to use Cursor for free or need pay for it ?

"Software engineer by day" - and you're just starting out? Pls explain Daniel...

I am also going through this period, I’d say it helps me more that I know how the AI code works. You don’t need to be an expert, just enough to understand, I am however pushing past the foundations so I don’t have to rely on AI

Are you still learning or already working as junior ?

I am looking for a job as a junior, learning as I go though. I don't think I'll ever stop learning

IMO the biggest barrier is the understanding of good programming patterns and conventions. Gen AI could easily trick you into thinking the code is good because it works ... until it stops or stops fulfilling its needs.

What you could do though is use Gen AI but make sure to double-check yourself afterwards. After you're done implementing a feature or something, copy & paste what you did into a context-isolated AI and ask for feedback and what could be improved.

That is because gen AI generally will more-or-less mimic the quality of the code that is already there. So if you start with low quality code, you will get low quality suggestions.

@diselo.xyz

Try windsurf - ing

What is reason for this recommendation? honestly I never heard about this tool