u/Fantastic-Ad5234

I apologise that these types of posts are extremely common and the matter that I am posting on fits that category, but I am genuinely at a loss of what to do and would greatly appreciate advice.

A few days ago, i picked up cursor. After a few hours on my first project, I ran out of credits. Because I was absolutely mind blown at how insanely capable it was, i bought a subscription so I could continue. It was perfect.

It managed to create a face to face video app complete with facial landmark rating systems and a variety of other features. Then I tried refining and adding more and more features, but they would never turn out to expectation and I was highly frustrated that nothing seemed to be working anymore, and that the ai's initial "magic" had disappeared. I did as much as I could, asking other Ais like chatgpt and Gemini to help me prompt engineer and elaborate with more technical terms regarding what I was "supposed" to tell cursor. Cursor kept providing "fixes" that never worked. The whole time I followed the practice of starting a new agent as soon as possible or when a feature was fixed so context would not be a burden. But it never worked in getting the AI to do what I wanted it to do without absolutely unfixable bugs or quirks that I couldn't find the fix to anywhere.

After spending about 15% of my monthly composer credits on troubleshooting and trying to fix things for hours, I gave up on that project. I began another, a journaling website i'd always wanted to make. The first generation exceeded my expectations and looked absolutely beautiful. It used vite, react, typescript, tailwind and three.js

But again, when I tried to implement new features all fell apart. Like my previous project, I spent hours debugging, going back and forth with other Ais and cursor trying to pinpoint and fix the issues. Nothing worked, and with much more of my quota trying to fix it, I decided to pause again.

From what I've searched, the features that I have in mind, without vibe coding, would at least require me to intensively study for at least one to two years at the minimum to become proficient in those frameworks and languages.

At this point, I assume that if I do not want to spend the effort and time understanding all those frameworks and languages, vibe coding won't get me to where I want to be either. I understand the current limitations of vibe coding, but I am just unsure whether there's some way to make what I'm trying to make work.

I don't know if it's time to call it quits because this simply does not seem possible with the perspective that I am thinking of. These are projects I'd like to accomplish reasonably quickly, so I am uninterested in learning extensively solely for this reason. But from what I understand, if I do not then it really isn't realistic for me to expect to be able to create these types of projects.

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