I Used Cursor, Windsurf, and Claude Code for 2 Weeks - Here's the One I Kept Opening

A few months ago, AI coding tools felt magical to me. You type a prompt. The AI builds the feature. You feel like software development has changed forever. Then week two starts. That’s when the weird stuff happens. Imports start changing for no reason. The AI edits files you never touched. A small bug fix somehow becomes a 14-file refactor. And suddenly you realize: the hard part isn’t generating code anymore. It’s reviewing it. So I spent the last couple of weeks using Cursor , Windsurf , and C