Ive taken to co-writing a plan with requirements with cursor and it works really well at first. But as it makes mistakes and we use those mistakes to refine the document eventually we are ready to “go” and suddenly it’s generating a large volume of code that directly contradicts something in the plan. Small annoyances like its inability to add an empty line after markdown headings have to be explicitly re added and re-reminded.
I almost wish I had more control over how it was iterating. Especially when it comes to quality and consistency.
When I/we can write a test and it can grind on that is when AI is at its best. It’s a closed problem. I need the tools to help me, help it, turn the open problem I’m trying to solve into a set of discrete closed problems.