I loved the idea of pair programming in the first place. The only thing I didn't like is not being able to surf HN with someone over my shoulder. A lot of the

I loved the idea of pair programming in the first place. The only thing I didn't like is not being able to surf HN with someone over my shoulder. A lot of the earliest AI tools were sold as exactly that - pair programmers who aren't hovering over your shoulder. Copilot was the first to get it at a passable level. Cursor did it properly. It's a similar effect - it checks your typos, your semicolons, fetches enums for you. You ask it questions, but can't completely rely on it. You bounce ideas off it, it bounces ideas off you.