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 ModernMech on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @03:12PM (#43346674)

"after all the low hanging fruit has already been picked"

Another great analogy. LLMs allow us to pick low hanging fruit faster. If we want to pick the higher fruit, we'll need fundamentally different equipment, not automated ways to pick low hanging fruit.

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Re:I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts by bluefirebrand on Thursday March 13, 2025 @05:23AM (#43351575)

For what its worth I agree quite strongly with you and moron4hire in this thread

I wanted to make an observation that what you two are describing seems to me like it maps onto the Pareto principle quite neatly

LLMs seem like they have rapidly (maybe exponentially) approached the 80% effectiveness threshold, but the last 20% is going to be a much higher bar to clear

I think a lot of the disagreement around how useful these tools are is based around this. You can tell which people are happy with 80% accuracy versus those with higher standards

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