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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

similar to what you're saying, you need to open a new chat window whenever you've changed things on your own outside of its suggestions while in the same chat flow because otherwise it reverts what you changed independently

very annoying bit of ux, tho i try to step back every once in a while and remember how much of a leap forward the experience is

Its really bad RN for some reason. Go back to 3.5 until it gets fixed. Does way way too much for its own good.

I've had this happen pretty frequently, and it's quite annoying

One workaround is using CmdK on a single file if the change is small

I've noticed that has a lower failure rate than longer Composer agent chats

Yeah, same issue. I was consistently prompting it to only fix the issue described and to let me know if that caused another issue so I can approve further changes. Replit seems better at this.

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mine had a lot of PLEASE undo what you did wtf why did you erase what was working

same experience here 🤦🏻‍♀️

https://warpcast.com/christin/0x9c73f7fb

Yea it has done the same to me. It really likes to make additional changes.