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AI agents like Cursor have transformed app development workflows through deliberate practices. Key learnings include using plan mode before execution to clarify intent, maintaining custom GPT projects for context continuity, leveraging agent skills instead of lengthy AGENTS.md files, choosing reasoning models for complex tasks, breaking large prompts into focused scopes, reviewing AI-generated code carefully to prevent tech debt, learning tools deeply to find leverage points, implementing linters and rules as guardrails, evolving AGENTS files to prevent recurring mistakes, running tests and CI on every PR, and exploring uncomfortable tools to discover new capabilities. The core insight: AI agents amplify both discipline and shortcuts, multiplying responsibility rather than removing it.

11 Things I learned after using AI Agents full-time

7. Not learning the AI development tools deeply

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<li>Not reviewing changes carefully</li>
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this is the biggest point i would say [the others are extremely useful don’t get me wrong].
Overly trusting that the AI understands your exact intention will lead to major technical debt and thinking the AI will handle everything correctly.
There’s been many times where the code is overly complex or basic cases are not considered in data storage, context or even execution [re-estabilishing the standards].
Thanks for sharing!

Number 6 (not reviewing changes carefully) is where I see most people get burned. It’s tempting to just accept diffs because “it passed the tests” but agents often introduce subtle changes in adjacent files that aren’t directly related to the task — and those slip through because you’re scanning for the change you asked for, not the change you didn’t. The <a href="http://AGENTS.md" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">AGENTS.md</a> evolution tip (#9) is underrated too — most people set it up once and let it go stale. Keeping it as a living doc that you update when you find recurring failure patterns is probably the highest-ROI habit you can build for long-running codebases.