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It's an interesting question. As a freelance consultant, theoretically a tool like this could allow me to massively scale up my income, assuming I could find en

It's an interesting question. As a freelance consultant, theoretically a tool like this could allow me to massively scale up my income, assuming I could find enough clients. I'm a bit nervous where I'd end up though - with code I'd "written" but wasn't familiar with, and with who knows what kinds of limitations or subtle bugs baked in.

firtoz 2y ago
I currently pay around $200-300 to a combination of Cursor + Anthropic through the API. I have both a full time job and freelance work. It pays for itself. I end up reviewing more than manual coding, to ensure the quality of the results. Funnily, the work I did through this method has received more praise than my usual work.
- coffeecantcode 2y ago
  Did you outgrow the vase 500 searches that Cursor gives you per month and connect your API key for usage based pricing? I’m having a hard time coming close to the 500 included in the monthly subscription and I use it like, a lot. Just curious how you’re hitting that 200-300 mark unless you’re talking about paying Anthropic outside of cursor. Which I just now realized is probably the case.
  - firtoz 2y ago
    I ran out of fast requests and using my own API key
leoedin 2y ago
> I'm a bit nervous where I'd end up though - with code I'd "written" but wasn't familiar with This does seem like quite a big downside. It turns every new feature into “implement this in someone else’s code base”. I imagine you’d very quickly have complete dependency on the AI. Maybe that’s an inevitability in this new world?
- optimalsolver 2y ago
  >you’d very quickly have complete dependency on the AI That's a feature, not a bug. At least from OAI/Anthropic's point of view.
- bluefirebrand 2y ago
  It sounds fine as long as you can fully trust the AI to do good work right? I don't think there's any current AI that is fully trustworthy this way though. I wouldn't even put them at 50% trustworthy I think we are going to see a cliff where they become 80% good, and every tiny bit of improvement past that point will be exponentially more difficult and expensive to achieve. I don't think we reach 100% reliable AI in any of our lifetimes
  - itsoktocry 2y ago
    I think we are going to reach a cliff where a type of old school developers keep saying, "it just can't write code like I can" while at the same time wondering why they can't land a job. Current AI is likely already beyond 50% trustworthiness, whatever that means.
    - bluefirebrand 2y ago
      > "it just can't write code like I can" while at the same time wondering why they can't land a job People had this same prediction about offshore development Those old school devs are able to find well paying work fixing broken software churned out by overseas code sweatshops I predict if you can read and understand code without the help of AI models you will be in even higher demand to fix the endless broken software built by AI assisted coders who cannot function without AI help
- Suppafly 2y ago
  >It turns every new feature into “implement this in someone else’s code base”. It amazes me that more people aren't worried about this.

firtoz 2y ago

I currently pay around $200-300 to a combination of Cursor + Anthropic through the API. I have both a full time job and freelance work. It pays for itself. I end up reviewing more than manual coding, to ensure the quality of the results. Funnily, the work I did through this method has received more praise than my usual work.

coffeecantcode 2y ago
Did you outgrow the vase 500 searches that Cursor gives you per month and connect your API key for usage based pricing? I’m having a hard time coming close to the 500 included in the monthly subscription and I use it like, a lot. Just curious how you’re hitting that 200-300 mark unless you’re talking about paying Anthropic outside of cursor. Which I just now realized is probably the case.
- firtoz 2y ago
  I ran out of fast requests and using my own API key

leoedin 2y ago

> I'm a bit nervous where I'd end up though - with code I'd "written" but wasn't familiar with This does seem like quite a big downside. It turns every new feature into “implement this in someone else’s code base”. I imagine you’d very quickly have complete dependency on the AI. Maybe that’s an inevitability in this new world?

optimalsolver 2y ago
>you’d very quickly have complete dependency on the AI That's a feature, not a bug. At least from OAI/Anthropic's point of view.
bluefirebrand 2y ago
It sounds fine as long as you can fully trust the AI to do good work right? I don't think there's any current AI that is fully trustworthy this way though. I wouldn't even put them at 50% trustworthy I think we are going to see a cliff where they become 80% good, and every tiny bit of improvement past that point will be exponentially more difficult and expensive to achieve. I don't think we reach 100% reliable AI in any of our lifetimes
- itsoktocry 2y ago
  I think we are going to reach a cliff where a type of old school developers keep saying, "it just can't write code like I can" while at the same time wondering why they can't land a job. Current AI is likely already beyond 50% trustworthiness, whatever that means.
  - bluefirebrand 2y ago
    > "it just can't write code like I can" while at the same time wondering why they can't land a job People had this same prediction about offshore development Those old school devs are able to find well paying work fixing broken software churned out by overseas code sweatshops I predict if you can read and understand code without the help of AI models you will be in even higher demand to fix the endless broken software built by AI assisted coders who cannot function without AI help
Suppafly 2y ago
>It turns every new feature into “implement this in someone else’s code base”. It amazes me that more people aren't worried about this.