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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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