What I Learned After Losing Code to AI (Twice)

The first time Cursor nuked my code, I blamed myself. I should've committed more, read the diff closer, been clearer in my prompt. The second time I realized my workflow was broken. What Happened the First Time I'd been refactoring for about three hours. Cursor was being genuinely helpful, cleaning up old patterns, modernizing some syntax, breaking apart this massive god-object I'd been meaning to…