AI coding assistants like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Code have become central to how Silicon Valley envisions the future of programming—faster development, lower costs, and democratized access to code. But a growing “Cursor resistance” movement among engineers is pushing back. They argue that these tools produce unreliable code, erode craftsmanship, and threaten their #(Cool) Dev careers. https://www.theinformation.com/articles/rise-cursor-resistance-techies-want-ignore-ai-coding-tools?utm_campaign=article_email&utm_content=article-15888&utm_medium=email&utm

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AI coding assistants like Cursor, GitHub Copilot, and Claude Code have become central to how Silicon Valley envisions the future of programming—faster development, lower costs, and democratized access to code.
But a growing “Cursor resistance” movement among engineers is pushing back. They argue that these tools produce unreliable code, erode craftsmanship, and threaten their #(Cool) Dev careers.

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Rise of the Cursor Resistance: Why Some Techies Want to Ignore AI Coding Tools

Over the summer, two software engineers at Mixus, a San Francisco–based artificial intelligence startup, staged a bit of a rebellion by refusing to follow instructions to rely heavily on Cursor or any of the other popular new coding-assistance software. They figured “they could do better than ...