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Has Cursor Cooked Junior Developers for Good?
Manage episode 471184138 series 3399111
Cursor is an AI-powered text editor for coders. Let me be honest - if I was a junior developer, I'd feel a little nervous looking at what it's capable of doing.
But I'm not. So I'm not.
Let's explore why Cursor is an amazing tool that will cause a ton of headaches when used improperly and what you can do as a junior developer to to create a technical moat to be "AI-proof."
Shameless Plugs
Free 5 day email course to go from HTML to AI
Got a question you want answered on the pod? Drop it here
Apply for 1 of 12 spots at Parsity - Learn to build complex software, work with LLMs and launch your career.
AI Bootcamp (NEW) - for software developers who want to be the expert on their team when it comes to integrating AI into web applications.
Chapters
1. Has Cursor Cooked Junior Developers for Good? (00:00:00)
2. Introduction to AI Anxiety (00:00:24)
3. Limitations of AI Coding Tools (00:09:04)
4. The Full Software Development Lifecycle (00:17:05)
5. Beyond Just Writing Code (00:31:10)
6. System Design as Career Protection (00:36:15)
7. Final Thoughts and Encouragement (00:48:14)
303 episodes
Manage episode 471184138 series 3399111
Cursor is an AI-powered text editor for coders. Let me be honest - if I was a junior developer, I'd feel a little nervous looking at what it's capable of doing.
But I'm not. So I'm not.
Let's explore why Cursor is an amazing tool that will cause a ton of headaches when used improperly and what you can do as a junior developer to to create a technical moat to be "AI-proof."
Shameless Plugs
Free 5 day email course to go from HTML to AI
Got a question you want answered on the pod? Drop it here
Apply for 1 of 12 spots at Parsity - Learn to build complex software, work with LLMs and launch your career.
AI Bootcamp (NEW) - for software developers who want to be the expert on their team when it comes to integrating AI into web applications.
Chapters
1. Has Cursor Cooked Junior Developers for Good? (00:00:00)
2. Introduction to AI Anxiety (00:00:24)
3. Limitations of AI Coding Tools (00:09:04)
4. The Full Software Development Lifecycle (00:17:05)
5. Beyond Just Writing Code (00:31:10)
6. System Design as Career Protection (00:36:15)
7. Final Thoughts and Encouragement (00:48:14)
303 episodes
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