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It's strange how Cursor (using claude-3.7-sonnet) will make changes to things in addition to what you asked

I had asked it to implement something and it looked pretty good except for one bug that I asked it to fix and then all of a sudden it changed the parts that were originally working

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I actually lost a few months of development attempting to build this way. 

After trying to allow Cursor / Cascade to just do its "thing", it just builds spaghetti code with inconsistent patterns and once it can't hold the entire project in memory at one time, it ends up just running itself in circles when trying to edit or add more later.

I've found that the best way to leverage AI editors at their current technology is to:
- have a conversation about app goals and decide best app structure and patterns
- have AI create a markdown file detailing goals, app structure and patterns
- have AI create a single domain / section using stated pattern
- run tests & verify pattern with AI recommendations and update structure document
- methodically add domains / sections regularly reminding the AI to reference the structure document to keep the patterns in memory
- always test new code and double-check all AI generated code
- constantly ask the AI why it made deviations, if any

For now, coding is still very hands-on

3.7 is wild, but also — elements of swabbies workflow here might help u. @jc4p does similar. Have a spec you can enforce the AI  to at all times

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3.7 is wild, but also — elements of swabbies workflow here might help u. @jc4p does similar. Have a spec you can enforce the AI  to at all times https://warpcast.com/swabbie.eth/0xdc3fde74