I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts

Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by mrlowlevel on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @06:49AM (#43341815)

Do any of these tools use the rich information from the AST to pull in context? Coupled with semantic search for entry points into the AST, it feels like you could do a lot…

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by zarathustreal on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @07:13AM (#43341999)

Don’t they all do this? Surely they’re not just doing naive text, n-gram, regex, embeddings, etc, right?

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by marxplank on Thursday March 13, 2025 @04:54AM (#43351415)

they are just a language model generating text which happens to be code, ASTs are not used afaik

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