I have personally witnessed Cursor diagnose and then fix an actual non-trivial bug starting from its description in Jira, and I only had to course-correct it once.
I have also seen it fail on far simpler tasks.
It varies so much depending on what you are doing, the language etc that generic proclamations "it works!" or "it doesn't work!" are pretty much meaningless.
That aside, you seem to be conflating "it works" with "good enough to replace programmers", but these aren't synonyms.
And on the gripping hand, one way to "make" it work is simply to lower the standards. Which our industry has been doing aplenty for a long time now even before AI, so we shouldn't be surprised when top management drives it to its logical completion.
I have also seen it fail on far simpler tasks.
It varies so much depending on what you are doing, the language etc that generic proclamations "it works!" or "it doesn't work!" are pretty much meaningless.
That aside, you seem to be conflating "it works" with "good enough to replace programmers", but these aren't synonyms.
And on the gripping hand, one way to "make" it work is simply to lower the standards. Which our industry has been doing aplenty for a long time now even before AI, so we shouldn't be surprised when top management drives it to its logical completion.