I just installed the newest cursor (3.11.x) text editor and I hate it. It tries to type in front of me. I can't think straight while that is happening.

If the words on the screen change before, during, and after I type - it is as if I'm not typing at all. But the AI is not smarter than me, I am smarter than it. If some business wants to give the task of writing to the text editor itself - that's their choice. As for me, as a software specialist, I cannot give up the task of thinking. It is my job.

The cursor text editor would place text that isn't there, in a different color, right where I type. But if you click away it disappears. The difference is so subtle - what text is there? What text isn't? - that I am honestly lost as to what's going on there. I have always disallowed text editors to autocomplete or engage in other fuckery. Do not give me list of class methods as I type. Do not do anything as I type. I'm okay with telling an agent what to do (in a separate panel) and then it does it (separately from me, while I do something else). I'm not okay with an AI getting under my skin and inside my eyeballs.

Do you like getting interrupted as you speak? What if your audience would try to say out lout what they think your next word would be? Would that make you a better speaker? How about "helping you out" by telling you what your speech is, just as you get ready to start speaking? And if this sounds preposterous and annyoing in speech... why does every text editor and every software behemoth think it's a great idea to do that with text?

I feel like my brain is being rewired by the text editor. I was looking at the cursor window where it was typing ahead of me, and as I turned to look at another window, and started typing, I saw myself making a lot of typing errors right away - as if I could not even think straight. That sensation disappeared after a few dozen seconds, but I think using the AI in this manner, letting it type ahead of me, will literally make me dumber.

There was research saying that studying for GRE increases brain plasticity and helps regenerate brain cells. It was thought that brain cells do not regenerate, but after looking at brains of the students studying for GRE, looking with the MRI brain scanner that is, the researchers found that students' brains increased in number of connections between neurons. And I believe it. But also in a similar manner, if you don't use your brain, it will deteriorate. If you don't use your muscles, they deteriorate. It's the same with the brain, and any other organ. If you don't speak, your vocal cords get weaker, etc. So I have to think that allowing AI to type ahead of you would make you dumber. It would remove the load from your brain, reduce the brain usage, and therefore make you dumber. I hope to never let it happen to me.