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The CTO's Ephemeral Approach

Why treating AI-generated code as disposable will rewire your brain for innovation

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Etienne de Bruin
May 21, 2025
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I'm sitting at my desk, staring at lines of code in my Cursor editor. It's 2 AM. My brain is fried. I've been trying to build an encryption application that uses some novel approaches I discovered in a research paper. Cursor, with its AI assistant, promises to be my partner in this digital dance.

"Generate a secure key derivation function that uses the A…

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