Every developer using Claude Code or Cursor has hit the same wall at some point.
You spin up a new project, start vibing with the AI, and for the first hour everything feels like magic. Then slowly things start going sideways. The agent reformats a file it had no business touching. It runs the entire test suite to check a two-line change. It invents a new folder structure that contradicts the one you established three days ago. It adds an abstraction layer you didn't ask for and now have to maintain.
None of this is the AI's fault. It's working with what you gave it.
The uncomfortable truth about AI coding tools
AI agents don't have opinions. They infer conventions from context. If your project has strict ESLint rules, the agent follows them. If your project has no rules, the agent makes them up - differently every session.
