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 onion2k on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @10:52AM (#43343909)

I have no idea what you're even trying to say but this. Is this some kind of technoreligion that thinks AGI is worth the endeavor regardless of the harm that comes to people along the way?

I'm saying there is a lot of value in tools that are merely 'better than the status quo'. An AI assistant doesn't need to be as good as a dev in order to be useful.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by bluefirebrand on Thursday March 13, 2025 @05:26AM (#43351598)

These tools don't behave like assistants though, despite being advertised as being assistants

They turn you into the assistant instead of the programmer in the driver seat

Whenever you use them, you have to shift "code review mode", which is not the role of the primary programmer on a task, it is the role of a secondary programmer doing a PR

It's "a lot of value" if you like being the assistant to a very inconsistent junior programmer

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