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I recently started using Cursor for all my typescript/react personal projects and the increase in productivity has been staggering. Not only has it helped me ex
by friggeri 2y ago
I recently started using Cursor for all my typescript/react personal projects and the increase in productivity has been staggering. Not only has it helped me execute way faster, similar to the OP I also find that it prevents me from getting sidetracked by premature abstraction/optimization/refactoring.
I recently went from an idea for a casual word game (aka wordle) to a fully polished product in about 2h, which would have taking me 4 or 5 times that if I hadn’t used Cursor. I estimate that 90% of the time was spent thinking about the product, directing the AI, and testing and about 10% of the time actually coding.
- eru 2y agoInteresting. Have you published the game anywhere (eg GitHub or so)? Have you written about your experience anywhere in greater length?
- namaria 2y agoYou're happy to have gone from thinking of cloning something to cloning something using a cloning tool quickly?
- bsaul 2y agoYour remark raises a question : how much of your daily work is truely original ? Unless you work in R&D i've got some bad news for you..
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- achierius 2y agoYou don't have to be a researcher to do original work. Out of ten people on my team one has a PhD, but we're all doing more-or-less unique work a large fraction of the time.
- becquerel 2y agoWhy shouldn't they be? They achieved their goal. There is little shame in cloning something.
- friggeri 2y agoApologies for the misunderstanding, I just caught the typo, should have read "ala wordle", not "aka wordle", the game is fully original. Using AI enabled me to spend more time thinking about game mechanics.
- sophiacamille 2y agoId love to see your GitHub before and after
- miningape 2y agoI would love to see the world where you didn't use AI and instead invested the time to make yourself a stronger programmer. A react wordle clone isn't something most developers would need 2 hours to make (sure maybe the styling / hosting AROUND the wordle clone might take longer) - I'm not saying you're a bad programmer or a bad person but what is the opportunity cost of using AI here? Are you optimising yourself into a local-minima?
- regularfry 2y agoCounterpoint: learning to make better buggy-whips is fun but, in the grand scheme of things, also a local minimum.
- miningape 2y agoThe existence of other minima does not imply all minima are equal. In fact, without knowing the entire graph it's impossible to say whether a particular minima is the global minima or just a local one.
- jpamata 2y agothey said 90% of it was spent on ideation and exploration they didnt specifically mean they built a wordle clone, just a game like it. if they wanted just a wordle clone, they wouldve gotten one within a few minutes of using codegen tools.
- miningape 2y agoNo, what they said was > I estimate that 90% of the time was spent thinking about the product, directing the AI, and testing In other words 90% of the time was spent in the proompt-test-proompt loop. Not ideation and exploration. > they didnt specifically mean they built a wordle clone, just a game like it. if they wanted just a wordle clone, they wouldve gotten one within a few minutes of using codegen tools. If you really believe that I'm not sure what to say other than: have you tried to use an AI to make a full wordle clone? (not just the checking logic, or rendering - the entire thing)
- causal 2y agoYou're getting a lot of snark in the comments, but your excitement is warranted. It's fascinating how any claims of a code tool being useful always seem to offend the ego and bring out all the chest-thumping super-programmers claiming they could do it better.
- 3abiton 2y agoAny gotchas using Cursor? Or headsup?