News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

Ask HN: Do you use cursor? What's your YoE and role?

Curious. I want to understand who you are and how you use it.

I use cursor and co pilot occasionally but find that it hampers me about half the time on some issues, or really helps in others.

I have tracked my usage over the last 21 days:

42% of the time I gave up and did it myself. Of these, I gave 86% at least 3 attempts with the prompt. 72% of the time the reason I gave up was because it kept giving me wrong code, the next reason was because it changed the variables around or shifted my code way too much.

63% of the time it solved my problem. 45% of these were solved in the first attempt. I messed up how I track this because there were updates I made which were faster to do myself than to prompt.

Of all these, I had classified 76% as easy/tedious tasks.

( 1 comment | on HN )
Re:Ask HN: Do you use cursor? What's your YoE and role? by gamificationpan on Friday May 09, 2025 @02:10AM (#43934228)
yes, I'm a product manager, learing how to coding now.