Cursor is the new C compiler?

I never really experienced Assembly programming. Sure I took a class and learned a little. But even very young it was already Apple Basic. Later Python and friends. Some C.

Now I feel like I might understand what the experienced Assembly programmer must have felt with the creation of C compilers. With the publishing of the Kernighan and Ritchie book. Imagine experiencing all that as someone that had been through many hard won trials and successes with Assembly.

Such conflict. One foot in the past and one foot in the future.

That’s what it feels like to work with AI augmented, natural language programming.