Before AI coding tools, building software often meant spending hours debugging, reading documentation, testing assumptions, and discovering that my first approach was wrong.
It was slow and frustrating.
It was also how I learned.
Now I use Cursor, and my development time has dropped dramatically. It can generate code, explain unfamiliar parts of a project, trace errors, write tests, and help me move between backend, frontend, database, and deployment work.
As a solo developer, that is extremely valuable.
