Do careful code reviews after every change by cursor. Do small changes, break up bigger tasks. Be very precise in your instructions. It doesn't replace an experienced developer. Not much different than how a senior engineer would tackle a task. Everything else will result in throw-away spaghetti crap like bolt and similiar-minded frameworks which will collapse in production on day 1 (if you get that far). It's tempting to take it as an autopilot but the results are much better if you treat it as a copilot.
> It's tempting to take it as an autopilot but the results are much better if you treat it as a copilot.
As the son of a pilot, this sentence is really funny to me. A real-world pilot would switch the places of 'copilot' and 'autopilot' in your metaphor-- the autopilot maintains course on a given vector but isn't the same thing as a human being in command of the vehicle for exactly the reasons you refer to.
It's frightening when i think of that Boeing & Airbus are trying to replace the human copilot with AI / computer systems so that in future only one human pilot will command a passenger jet.
