AI-assisted development is all the rage nowadays. I'm sceptical, but really want to give these tools a fair shot. But then I look at what these tools actually manage to do, and am disillusioned: these tools can be worse than useless, making us net-negative productive.

Let's pick one of the best possible examples of AI-generated code changes. An example so good, that the Cursor Editor uses it to advertise on their front page.