What if I told you that I stopped "coding" and I'm still building apps? 🤯💻
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What if I told you that I stopped "coding" and I'm still building apps? 🤯💻
I'm not talking about No-Code or Low-Code, but about a complete change of approach.
With the Cursor development tool, which contains a revolutionary feature called Composer Agent, I started writing development tasks instead of writing code line by line.
What does it look like in practice?
🔹 Step one - planning: I ask Composer to write a README.md for the project, including a description of the features, file structure, dependencies, and the right way to develop it.
🔹 Step two - execution: after it plans everything in an orderly way, I ask it to start developing the project step by step.
🔹 Step three - improvements and iterations: if something is missing or doesn't work, I ask for changes - and it fixes them.
What is Composer Agent, actually?
When you run Cursor in Agent mode, it doesn't just make small changes, but acts like a real programmer:
✅ Plans the code structure and architecture
✅ Suggests fixes for errors and works in iterations
✅ Writes complete code, including configuration files, documentation and tests
✅ Understands which parts of the project need to change so everything works
🚀 The result?
Instead of sitting for hours thinking about how everything is supposed to connect, I just give guidance and approve.
Within minutes I have a working project, which needs a bit more polish, but is already at a very advanced stage.
We are moving from programmers to code reviewers -
In an era where AI can write the code for us, we no longer function only as programmers, but more like Code Review developers.
What does that mean?
🔹 You need to understand the big picture and manage the product smartly
🔹 Make sure the code is written correctly, without edge cases, bugs and performance problems
🔹 Know when to approve code and when to send it back for fixes
But it's not all rosy.
AI isn't perfect - sometimes there are bugs and faults that require several iterations and sometimes even manual intervention.
Here is where real programmers have the advantage: the ability to understand, diagnose and solve complex problems.
And you can see it with other developers too - I'm not the only one who thinks so - Andrej Karpathy (a legendary programmer, worked at OpenAI and Tesla) tweeted about it:
https://lnkd.in/dJym_Jzw
We're approaching an era where programmers don't code, but guide and manage processes.
So yes, it won't suit critical projects, but for weekend products and MVPs? It's crazy.
