Cursor ran out, realized I still code

[Hema]

My Cursor quota ran out a couple of days before renewal and I spent a good hour sulking because I thought I'd get nothing done.

Then I grudgingly opened IntelliJ and started tweaking things myself.

And... I realised I was kinda good at this shiz...

I knew where things lived, understood the flow, anticipated edge cases, and got stuff done faster than I expected.

It made me see that I haven't become worse at programming - I've just gotten bored.

Lately my job is mostly reviewing diffs, tweaking prompts, fixing AI weirdness, and basically acting as a human linting tool. Somewhere along the line I stopped doing anything myself and ended up supervising an overconfident intern.

The productivity gains are insane, so I don't really want to give them up. But I also hate feeling like a sea sponge, marinating in generated code all day.

Anyone else stuck in this weird spot where AI is too useful to ditch, yet software development feels like a clerical job?

[Harini]

Lol, that happened to me this month. I burned through my token quota in just 15 days and kept raw-dogging till 1 July.

[Madhu]

Same here. As a beginner I spent ages on Antigravity, the code worked fine until it suddenly broke and I had no clue why. The whole codebase was written by AI, so I couldn't understand my own project. I ended up rewriting the entire codebase myself and only used basic AI for repetitive tasks or spotting errors.

[Sohan]

Lol, yeah true, we've turned into planners plus human linters (nice term).

I kinda hate that these tools are way faster than us, but there's no other choice.

[Suraj]

I ran Opus, burned through all my Copilot credits in three days, and this month I wrote a lot of error-free code. Productivity shot up and the best part is I started loving my job again, man. Reviewing AI-generated code is the most boring stuff.

[Nakul]

I feel starting a new project with a Claude or Cursor-generated template is quick and satisfying, but writing the core code by hand gives the real dopamine rush.