if you don't stay in the loop when coding with AI you produce a lot more tech debt
the immediate response to that is "we can just make AI fix it" and everyone's been rolling with that
but stop and think about it - this is an absurdly high bar to clear
How does anyone actually use GPT5 (reg or codex) for code?
Its so slow, which promotes terrible dev behavior (ask a question, leave to do something else for 10 minutes while 'blocked' on this task, come back to answer)
This is now getting insane - i downgraded my Claude account YESTERDAY and they go and drop 4.5
Now 3 for 3 with my account cancelation leading to a next-day major anthropic product release
Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.5—the best coding model in the world.
It's the strongest model for building complex agents. It's the best model at using computers. And it shows substantial gains on tests of reasoning and math.
I have my new litmus test for AI capabilites -
Upgrade a single usage of Google Places Service Place Autocomplete to Google Places (new) Autocomplete.
Will take AGI to complete
If youre only using Claude 3.7 in Cursor, highly suggest doing some dev directly with claude dot com.
Back to using the UI as one of my main workflows. 3.7 thinking has been stellar (reverted back to 3.5 in cursor)