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Cursor? I finally got around to trying it this week and it exceeded my expectations.

by mentos 2y ago

dr_dshiv 2y ago
No, if you have no coding ability and no interest in learning but want to just tell the computer what you want: 1. Lovable 2. Bolt.new 3. Replit agent Or actually, I’d put Claude #1. You can make all kinds of cool stuff, just in their UI.
ModernMech 2y ago
What were your expectations and how did it exceed them? I have to say, on they basis of your comment I just decided to try Cursor, and I'm sorry to report it immediately disappointed me. First thing it did was it told me it found a syntax error in code that compiles perfectly. It went ahead and added a closing brace, telling me that "I've fixed the issue by properly closing the method with its brace. The method now has valid syntax and should compile correctly". It was never broken! This seems like such a regression of tooling; we have parsers for the purpose of finding wrong syntax, and they don't just make up things like missing braces that aren't missing, and then break your code by inserting them. This seems like developing in Kafka's nightmares. Should I even bother continuing to evaluate Cursor, when it can take perfectly valid and correct code, and immediately make it worse? What other nightmares will it reveal to me, and do I even want to know? I'm kind of astounded at how bad that first impression was, couldn't have been worse really.
- soco 2y ago
  Try refactoring anything in Cursor, that's where the shit really hits the fan. I guess all those folks claiming 100x productivity or applications made with sole vibing, are only building little proof-of concept apps, something which "works" but definitely doesn't need to follow proper requirements. Can it bootstrap an application for you? For sure, but that's just half a day sunk otherwise - all the next weeks of building up on that scaffolding cannot today be automated, or vibed.
  - kuschku 2y ago
    The reason bootstrapping takes a while is to make sure you've got a solid foundation for your project. If you let an LLM bootstrap your project, you get tech debt from the get go. It's costing you more time than it saves.

Cursor? I finally got around to trying it this week and it exceeded my expectations.

by mentos 2y ago

Cursor? I finally got around to trying it this week and it exceeded my expectations.

No, if you have no coding ability and no interest in learning but want to just tell the computer what you want: 1. Lovable 2. Bolt.new 3. Replit agent Or actually, I’d put Claude #1. You can make all kinds of cool stuff, just in their UI.

ModernMech 2y ago

What were your expectations and how did it exceed them? I have to say, on they basis of your comment I just decided to try Cursor, and I'm sorry to report it immediately disappointed me. First thing it did was it told me it found a syntax error in code that compiles perfectly. It went ahead and added a closing brace, telling me that "I've fixed the issue by properly closing the method with its brace. The method now has valid syntax and should compile correctly". It was never broken! This seems like such a regression of tooling; we have parsers for the purpose of finding wrong syntax, and they don't just make up things like missing braces that aren't missing, and then break your code by inserting them. This seems like developing in Kafka's nightmares. Should I even bother continuing to evaluate Cursor, when it can take perfectly valid and correct code, and immediately make it worse? What other nightmares will it reveal to me, and do I even want to know? I'm kind of astounded at how bad that first impression was, couldn't have been worse really.

soco 2y ago
Try refactoring anything in Cursor, that's where the shit really hits the fan. I guess all those folks claiming 100x productivity or applications made with sole vibing, are only building little proof-of concept apps, something which "works" but definitely doesn't need to follow proper requirements. Can it bootstrap an application for you? For sure, but that's just half a day sunk otherwise - all the next weeks of building up on that scaffolding cannot today be automated, or vibed.
- kuschku 2y ago
  The reason bootstrapping takes a while is to make sure you've got a solid foundation for your project. If you let an LLM bootstrap your project, you get tech debt from the get go. It's costing you more time than it saves.