Assisted Programming With Cursor

I have a long and storied history with my attempts at programming computers. I think I know what I'm doing, I try, and the whole thing blows up in unexpected ways. Or some quirk of my particular rig causes something that nobody's ever heard of before. Even my own Beloved didn't believe that I could get a "dev/null error in line 0" until I showed her in person. Apparently, it's not supposed to be real. I showed her.

I can fuck up in strange and interesting ways.

I've been attempting to make a Sudoku game with art assets instead of numbers, using Cursor, for two weeks, now. The image above is just one example of my frustration with the app.

Yet, despite wanting to blow it up from time to time, I've got much further with this programming tool than any other I've attempted in the past. Which kind of irritates me a little bit because all progress is at the price of hours of convincing a language interpreter seemingly set permanently on "malicious compliance" mode.

Even that is somehow easier and simpler than what passes for my normal attempts at programming.

I honestly don't know why the techbros are so excited. But then again, they don't care if an illustration has fifteen fingers so long as it has enormous bahonkadonkaloos. They don't care if a 'book' is repetitive slop so long as someone's confused grandmother buys one version out of the five hundred they've uploaded to the Amazon book market. They don't care that the music they 'made' is ear-bleeding garbage, as long as they get some degree of income from it.

They want a shortcut to talent, without understanding what quality looks like.

I, meanwhile, want something that works the way I want it to.

It's taken me two weeks, but I'm creeping up on a working alpha version. Then I learn how to put the whole thing online for playtesting as I work on other features. And the third stage of the game where I introduce numerals into play.

I'll also be taking feedback from my target audience - MeMum.

If anyone else likes it, that's a bonus.

That's the difference between myself and the techbros, I believe. I tried to do what I'm using AI to do. I tried until I broke my heart about it. I'm not doing this to wring a profit out of dupes. I'm doing it to help someone I love. I'm not likely to do anything else with it, to be honest. One, because I don't have many other ideas, and the other... Well.

Because this experience has still been a pain in the arse.