I've been deep into trying out Cursor with Claude Sonnet 3.5 for building out a few ideas I had in mind and this stuff is fantastic. I don't think we are going back and to be honest we might be going into a very exciting future for programming. It definitely had a paradigm shift this year.
Since coding is primarily text based, LLMs seem to be a good fit for it. I find myself not stuck on syntactical errors and smaller issues anymore, going through a lot of the expected coding lines through tab-tab-tab as a lot of the common stuff is autocompleted.
Will everything get solved though? Mostly not. AI tools look to excel in the micro sense of programming but still greatly lack in the high abstraction thinking of systems and architecting large software systems. That being said, they look to be excellent tools for pressure testing scenarios. An essential tool right now well worth the $20/month being charged.