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The account is a throwaway but based on its short posting history and its replies, I don't have reason to believe it's a troll:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1inoryp/comment/mdr...

> I'm not a dev or engineers at all (just a geek working in Finance)

This fits my experience of teaching very intelligent students how to code; if you're an experienced programmer, you simply cannot fathom the kinds of assumptions beginners will make due to gaps in yet-to-be foundational knowledge. I remember having to tell students to mindful when searching Stack Overflow for help, because of how something as simple as an error from Requests (e.g. while doing web scraping) could lead them down a rabbit hole of "solutions" such as completely uninstalling their Python for a different/older version of Python.




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