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This thread has convinced me that Aider/Cursor need to do more marketing.
by OsrsNeedsf2P 2y ago
This thread has convinced me that Aider/Cursor need to do more marketing.
- larusso 2y agoMaybe. But maybe some like the more disconnected way of coding with ai.
- lgas 2y agoWhy? It's just moving more of the grunt work of shuffling things around to the human?
- larusso 2y agoFor me it’s still to feel under control. And the fact that I don‘t want to inject it into every workflow. I‘m open to AI and use it daily. But my terms may be different then others. I want to control what I share and how. People have secrets and other things in a project. I sometimes rename things because the AI should only deal with the big picture. Paint me paranoid but that’s how it is for me.
- esafak 2y agoThe future is not evenly distributed.
- rane 2y agoCursor is all the rage. Nobody talks about Aider, sadly.
- replwoacause 2y agoI partially disagree. Maybe it depends what circles you run in but at least here on HN I’ve seen Aider mentioned more times than I can count. Is cursor more popular? Yeah…but the people here are talking about Aider. That’s how I learned about it.
- ako 2y agoSame for windsurf, I’ve been using it to generate documentation for code bases. It will generate markdown with mermaid diagrams to explain whatever you want to know; from the component architecture of an entire application, to the sequence diagram for a specific button, and data and ER diagrams. But the approach to fit your entire codebase into one document so you can include it in your prompt context seems a dead end, instead the llm can use an agent to do targeted search through your code.