Re:Using LLMs and Cursor to finish side projects
by exitb on Saturday January 04, 2025 @02:00PM
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The point is that once you throw a moderately complex problem at it, you’ll typically get something that at least subtly wrong. So now instead of having fun coding, you’re rather debugging hundreds of lines of „someone else’s” code.
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Re:Using LLMs and Cursor to finish side projects
by OsrsNeedsf2P on Saturday January 04, 2025 @02:24PM
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Heavily disagree; with guidance, these AI tools can solve problems that otherwise require in-depth expertise. Someone ported the HD version of my game[0] to MacOS using GPT with no prior graphics knowledge.
Re:Using LLMs and Cursor to finish side projects
by sawmurai on Saturday January 04, 2025 @03:54PM
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Exactly. If you just throw things at it, it will fail. You have to break down the complex problems into sets of simple ones (for now). Then it can shine.
Re:Using LLMs and Cursor to finish side projects
by simonw on Saturday January 04, 2025 @03:08PM
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Sure, and at no point did the author say "look at how this thing solves complex problems for me". They wrote about how they use these tools to build neat side projects that they otherwise wouldn't have time to build. That's worthwhile.