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0 pointslolinder1y ago0 comments

I like Cursor, but I find the chat to be less useful than the super advanced auto complete.

The chat interface is... fine. Certainly better integrated into the editor than GitHub Copilot's, but I've never really seen the need to use it as chat—I ask for a change and then it makes the change. Then I fixed what it did wrong and ask for another change. The chat history aspect is meaningless and usually counterproductive, because it's faster for me to fix its mistakes than keep everything in the chat window while prodding it the last 20% of the way.

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tarsinge1y ago

I was a very skeptic on AI assisted coding until I tried Cursor and experienced the super autocomplete. It is ridiculously productive. For me it’s to the point it makes Vim obsolete because pressing tab correctly finishes the line or code block 90% of the time. Every developer having an opinion on AI assistance should have just tried to download Cursor and start editing a file.

themanmaran1y ago

Agreed the autocomplete definitely gets more milage than the chat. But I frequently use it for terminal commands as well. Especially AWS cli work.

"how do I check the cors bucket policies on [S3 bucket name]"

fragmede1y ago

> while prodding it the last 20% of the way.

hint: you don't get paid to get the LLM to output perfect code, you get paid by PRs submitted and landed. Generate the first 80% or whatever with the LLM, and then finish the last 20% that you can write faster than the LLM yourself, by hand.

reustle1y ago

Depends on the company. Most of the time, you get paid to add features and fix bugs, while maintaining reliability.

End users don’t care where the code came from.

jeremyjh1y ago

That is exactly what GP was pointing out, and why they said they do not prod it for it the last 20%.

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