This could be extrapolated to “does Cursor rot the mind?” Maybe. But programmers’ obsession with minutiae is a massive waste of time.

People try to dress it up as “attention to detail” or “caring about the craft” when it’s just unnecessary bikeshedding most of the time.

Hemingway didn’t need some bullshit Hemingway Writer to craft his style. Michelangelo wasn’t posting meta takes on Hacker News about the tools he used to carve David. Dante didn’t waste time blogging about the ink he used to write Inferno.

All this tabs vs. spaces, Vim vs. Emacs, Java vs. Go nonsense—it’s just another way people trick themselves into feeling productive. If some Gen Z dev wants to use Cursor or Vibe CoPilot to get shit done, more power to them.