When my friend bullied me into using Cursor and I got that vscode fork set up with good enough vim bindings to not make me rip my hair out, it was like a first

When my friend bullied me into using Cursor and I got that vscode fork set up with good enough vim bindings to not make me rip my hair out, it was like a first hit of a good drug. I couldn't believe how productive I was, and how much brain power I was saving by chilling at my desk and watching youtube while Cursor agented its way through some code that I would occasionally check in on and tweak. I got new modals done, new scientific charts (that I'd been terrified to implement since it was my job to engineer them, though they were chemistry charts so I didn't really understand them all that well), a full design rewrite, new components, oh man it felt great. Then it came time to make a change to one of the charts. Team members were asking me questions about it. "How can we make this axis display only for existing data rather than range?" I'm scrolling through code in a screenshare that I absolutely reviewed, I remember doing it, I remember clicking the green arrow in Cursor, but I'm panicking because this doesn't look like code I've ever seen, and I'm seeing gaping mistakes and stupid patterns and a ton of duplicated code. Yeah I reviewed it, but bit by bit, never really all at once. I'd never grocked the entire file. They're asking me questions to which I don't have answers, for code "I'd just written." Man it was embarrassing! And then to make the change, the AI completely failed at it. Plotly.js's type definitions are super out of date and the Python library is more fleshed out, so the AI started hallucinating things that exist on Python and not in JS - so now I gotta head to the docs anyway. I had to get much more manual, and the autocomplete of cursor was nice while doing so, but sometimes I'd spend more time tab/backspacing after realizing the thing it recommended was actually wrong, than I'd have spent just quickly typing the entire whatever thing. And just like a hit, now I'm chasing the dragon. I'd love to get that feeling back of entering a new era of programming, where I'm hugely augmented. I'm trying out all the different AI tools, and desperately wishing there was an autocomplete as fast and multi-line and as good as jumping around as Cursor, available in nvim. But they all let me down. Now that I'm paying more attention, I'm realizing the code really isn't good at all. I think it's still very useful to have Claude generate a lot of boilerplate, or come in and make some tedious changes for me, or just write all my tests, but beyond that, I don't know. I think it's improved my productivity maybe 20%, all things considered. Still amazing! I just wish it was good as I thought it was when I first tried it.