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I heavily started using windscribe and cursor editor. Mind you, I have 10 years of experience. But lately I have cut down their usage and gone back to writing
by ilrwbwrkhv 2y ago
I heavily started using windscribe and cursor editor. Mind you, I have 10 years of experience.
But lately I have cut down their usage and gone back to writing stuff by hand.
Because it is so easy to apply the changes the AI suggests but there's this subtle shift over time in the code base towards a non-optimal architecture.
And it becomes really hard to get out of.
The place where I still use AI quite a lot is autocomplete but of the intelligent kind like if I am returning a different string for each enum, all of that gets autocompleted really fast.
So line completion models like what JetBrains provides for free is I think the right balance. Supermaven also works well.
- 8s2ngy 2y agoI am in the same boat with you. I have also come to dislike having AI code generator inside my editor. Recently, I started looking into learning Rust seriously and decided to go with RustRover (the rust IDE from JetBrains) and I find that single-line AI autocomplete complements existing IDE features nicely. It works really well with the workflow I have come to prefer: describe the structure of the data using enums and structs, and then handle them using pattern matching and write unit tests for them.