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I guess experience is widely varying with tools. I had no idea what WSS was. Cursor searched the web and docs and necessary and built a working program. Then we went over each conceptual blocks and it explained stuff to me. When I was confused about some parts, it decided I need to strip away the RealTime API component and just understand asynco in context of WSS so it created a new file with a toy example.

Could it have written some really, really bad and unmaintainable code and it was just justifying things? Very possible. I asked to strip some 60% of the code after I thought I understood, and it was still working. The original code was too abstract for me and hard to follow. Did I learn in this whole process? I think yes. Would I have learned more if I had worked without AI? I think yes.

In life, some people play games and figure out the best builds after a lot of sweat and tears while others prefer googling the meta and only doing those builds, it seems. Both approach seems fine.



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