> Part of being a senior developer is making less-able coders productive, be they fleshly or algebraic. Using agents well is both a both a skill and an engineering project all its own, of prompts, indices, and (especially) tooling. LLMs only produce shitty code if you let them.
A junior developer often has negative value to a team, because they're sapping the time of more senior developers who have to help train them, review code, fix mistakes, etc. It can take a long while to break even.
The raw cost of Cursor's subscription is surely dwarfed by your own efforts, given that description. The actual calculous here should be the cost to corral Cursor, against the value of the code it generated.