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When writing code, do you ever feel like you're in a dark small uncomfortable room? Almost like a kind of synesthesia.

When the code is nice, clear, and robust, it feels like a comfortable expansive well lit space.

When it's messy and tangled, it feels like I'm in a small and uncomfortable space, unable to determine the shape of my boundaries, not knowing where the exit is.

Using AI somehow makes this feel worse for me. Accepting Cursor-style changes makes the space I'm in feel less familiar, less consistent. It feels like the shape of the rooms and walls might have shifted but it's too dark to see. Only way to tell is to feel for all the boundaries again, walk the perimeter.

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100% feel this with cursor. The difs help us see where things have changed but there’s so much more review. 

If I can figure it out within a 120s period I’d much rather go it on my own than send another prompt to cursor because half the time I spend 90s+ reviewing its output and familiarizing with the new code

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Yeah that’s definitely part of the discomfort. On every change I wonder to myself what unseen change it side effect occurred 

Like today it kept trying to change one of my imports to an old version of the SDK and it kept tripping things up 🫠

Yea, often times I'm trying to fix a few bugs and it'll fix one (narrow interpretation of prompt) but introduce three more that are subtle side effects that I have to hunt for.

Makes it feel like the layout of the room changed and I can't see it.