I recently wrote a blog post where I criticized the use of AI coding assistants on the premise that coding is mostly about thinking and not actually much about writing. Most of the criticisms in response to the post were some variation on this idea, "If you would just use an AI coding assistant then their value would be obvious."
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.doliver.org//articles/a-skeptics-review-of-cursor-ai