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Writing Your Own Code Considered Harmful
In modern, well-structured codebases with decent linting and tests, human-written code is often the weakest link.
Tools like Cursor, properly configured, consistently produce higher-quality code than humans—cleaner, faster, and bug-free. We’ve moved past the age of hero coders and into the era of high-leverage guidance.
The best engineers don’t write code—they steer it.
They shape context, define intent, and curate constraints.
Coding has become a meta-skill: less typing, more thinking.
Your job is to describe problems clearly, not solve them line by line.
Cursor doesn’t replace you—it promotes you.
Welcome to the age of the micro product manager.