Geek Out Time: Experiment with AI-powered Cursor- Reflections from the Edge

“ W e are still here, still building. But we may never see the “Hello World” the same way again.”

AI-powered coding tools like Cursor are rapidly transforming how we build software. As a senior developer, I decided to test Cursor in a practical project: building a simple Node.js Express API that fetches its welcome message dynamically from an external LLM (DeepSeek).

What started as a weekend build ended up as something much more reflective, not just about how we code, but about what’s happening to the role of developers in the age of AI.

The Setup

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