{"id":17249,"date":"2025-07-07T22:11:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T22:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/?p=17249"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T16:59:03","slug":"cursor-vibe-coding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comet.com\/site\/blog\/cursor-vibe-coding\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Assisted Coding with Cursor AI and Opik"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
How AI can help you move beyond vibe coding and become an effective AI engineer faster than you think<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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Dear developers: Your job is safe, and it actually just got a lot better too!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A few weeks ago, I took on the task of building an end-to-end LLM app, and I added a new tool to my tech stack alongside Opik<\/strong>, my go-to for LLM evaluation<\/a>. I used an AI-powered code editor called Cursor AI<\/a>. Cursor is designed specifically for software engineers like me to leverage AI to assist in code generation. With Cursor\u2019s help, I was able to deliver a project in a week that would have taken me months\u2014but AI alone couldn\u2019t have delivered it without me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is what I noticed: Without knowing how to code, I would not have been able to craft the right prompts to generate meaningful code or detect and fix the errors it made. However, due to my extensive background in software engineering and my awareness of coding best practices, I can iterate with an AI assistant on my codebase, utilizing AI as a collaborative tool while guiding it to deliver working and reliable code.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AI-assisted coders today use tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor AI, or even just copy-pasting code into AI chatbots like ChatGPT, to help them generate code. Before I tried Cursor, I was that developer copy-pasting code snippets into ChatGPT to try to speed up my development cycle or debug something. Although this approach did speed up development, it wasn\u2019t effective in the long run because ChatGPT did not have total context on the surrounding codebase, or deeply understand my plan for my project. Cursor AI integrates deeply with your codebase, enabling developers to write, refactor, and understand code more efficiently using natural language prompts. Cursor builds on top of VS Code, adding features such as intelligent autocomplete, codebase-aware chat, and AI-assisted debugging. In this context, the AI acts as a collaborator, offering suggestions based on the context of the entire code base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As generative language models, LLMs are actually great at code. Why? Because code is a language! So, the underlying mathematical architecture of LLMs built to model human language actually lends itself very well to coding languages as well. However, I notice they still fall short in logical decision making, such as strategically planning the project, debugging, and sensibly structuring the repo. That is where developers come in to guide them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is a difference between truly vibe coding<\/strong> with Cursor and AI-assisted coding<\/strong> with Cursor. Let me break it down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udc4e Vibe coding<\/strong> is a new approach to software development where, instead of manually typing code, developers use natural language to describe the end product, and the AI handles every step of the technical implementation. This does not require knowledge of software engineering, and I also don\u2019t recommend this approach if the goal is to create working or reliable software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ud83d\udc4dAI-assisted coding<\/strong> is different. It\u2019s a step beyond Cursor vibe coding. This is a new approach to software development, where programmers primarily interact with LLMs to generate code in an iterative manner. In this case, the developers are not only focused on the end result of the implementation, but also on hands-on guidance during the implementation. This is, by far, the best approach, and it requires a basic foundational knowledge of software engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the learning curve to become an excellent AI developer is now way shorter. With tools like Cursor AI and Opik, anyone can become a skilled developer and start building high-quality, reliable AI tools themselves. All you need to be an effective AI-assisted coder is a basic knowledge of software engineering best practices and core AI concepts, and you can get all this knowledge from university programs or free online courses. If you want to build AI projects, I recommend knowledge in the following areas, and have linked a few online and free courses to help you get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n