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The most-used Cursor command is "Remove AI code slop." That's the actual insight. Developers are spending more time cleaning up AI-generated code than anything else. What AI adds that devs don't want: > Extra comments humans wouldn't write > Defensive try/catch blocks everywhere (even in trusted code paths) > Type casts to bypass issues instead of fixing them > Style that's inconsistent with the rest of the file The problem isn't that AI writes bad code. It's that even the state of the art AI doesn't understand context completely. Teams are comfortable letting AI do the heavy lifting. They're not comfortable with code that sounds AI-generated. It adds error handling because "error handling is good" - not because this specific function needs it. It writes comments because "comments help" - not because this line is actually confusing. Developers don't want "good" code. They want locally consistent code, which varies by subsystem. This is why AI PRs are cognitively expensive. Even when the code works, reviewers have to translate foreign patterns back into the codebase's style. It compiles, sure, but it doesn't read right. AI optimizes for "seems like a good idea." Developers need "correct for this context." Until AI gets better at context-awareness, the most valuable Cursor command will keep being "remove the slop."

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This role that was niche 2 years ago is now one of the hottest in tech: Forward Deployed Engineers. 800% job growth. $300K-$600K comp. Companies scaling teams 5-10x. More about them:

New edition of Last Week in AI is live. This week’s roundup includes: • Visual Studio 2026 and .NET 10 ship with agent-native tooling • Postman adds auto-generated SDKs with liblab • Solo.io open-sources agentregistry for managing AI Skills • Helm 4 modernizes Kubernetes packaging with chart signing and WASM plugins • Unreal Engine 5.7 advances real-time simulation and spatial interaction Each update expands what developers can directly manage... from how agents plan and execute tasks, to how APIs are consumed, and how software is packaged and deployed across systems. Read the full edition ↓ #AI #softwareengineering #tooling #agenticAI #devtools #kubernetes #dotnet #postman #hackernews 

AI Engineers didn't exist 5 years ago. Now they're one of the fastest-growing roles in tech. The numbers back it up. Q1 2025 data: 35K job postings explicitly for AI Engineers, with base salaries ranging $170K-$230K. Their job is turning intelligence into production. They keep models running, build retrieval and evaluation systems, and ship APIs that deliver AI to users. It's where research meets reliability. This follows a familiar pattern. Each wave of innovation creates a new kind of builder. Webmasters became App Developers became DevOps Engineers. AI Engineers are the next evolution. Read the full breakdown from the link in first comment. Thank you Vinija Jain and Bassim Eledath for your POVs.