Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it

Re:Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it... by 4ndrewl on Thursday March 13, 2025 @06:00AM (#43351743)

Your cognitive abilities to do programming may cognitively decline, but that's not the aim here is it? The aim is to solve a problem for a user, not to write code? If we solve that using different tools maybe our cognitive abilities will just focus on something else?

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Re:Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it... by brulard on Thursday March 13, 2025 @06:17AM (#43351841)

Exactly. If there is a tool that can do a lot of the low level work for us, we are free to do more of the higher level tasks and have higher output overall. Programming should be just a means to an end, not the end itself.

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Re:Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it... by ThrowawayR2 on Thursday March 13, 2025 @10:24AM (#43353691)

Or, more likely, most of us will be much lower paid or simply out of a job as our former customers input their desires into the AI themselves and it spits out what they want.

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Re:Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it... by 4ndrewl on Thursday March 13, 2025 @11:45AM (#43354454)

Same as artists etc. Only we did it to ourselves.

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Re:Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it... by 957497573 on Thursday March 13, 2025 @02:03PM (#43355801)

> Programming should be just a means to an end, not the end itself.

That's just, like, your opinion man.

I know for a fact that I didn't study to be a software engineer just so I could end up wrangling LLMs trained on stolen code into writing crappy code for me.

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Re:Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it... by brulard on Thursday March 13, 2025 @04:17PM (#43356864)

I believe there are still many ways how to use AI in your workflow. For example I don't like the concept of Vibe coding, but it's amazing for people with little or no skill. They can do fun stuff which they couldn't before.

Neither I studied for such a reason. I studied it because I like to solve problems, and solutions are (from my perspective) software. If there are tools that can help me make such solutions quicker with acceptable quality, I'm going to use it. I don't want to use it to write "crappy" code although I know it is fully capable of doing so. But I believe there come the skills of software engineer to supervise and manage it. I don't think you can go far with LLMs without some real knowledge, neither now, nor in the following few years.

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