Since then, I spent a week trying to get cursor to work, and after dealing dealing with all the bugs, and restarting the composer each time with a new prompt, was able to get what I would consider a quality output for a moderately complex app (a parimutuel betting market).

The issue isn’t that LLMs are terrible, it’s the software like cursor is buggy and poorly written.

It should know that I don’t want to use code from an old version of the library I am using because the new library I am using is already in my projects dependencies.

It should let me set up preferences for different programming languages. And preferences for all programming languages.

So when I give it a prompt, it looks at the dependencies and language rules I already have set up, adds those to the prompt and produces the quality output I’m seeing now without me having to manually specify all those things.

Short version: LLMs rule the software is just shitty.