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I'm sorry but unless you count framework bootstraps for models and configs and stuff like that as "coding" nobody is legitimately writing 7500 lines in a day.
by CuriouslyC 2y ago
I'm sorry but unless you count framework bootstraps for models and configs and stuff like that as "coding" nobody is legitimately writing 7500 lines in a day. At my most productive, powering through real problems, debugging issues and making stuff solid, I've hit ~3500 with marathon code sessions and ChatGPT. I've seen industry leaders and competitive coders in action, and none of them were significantly faster - any speed difference is more due to taking fewer incorrect solution paths.
- materielle 2y agoEveryone is missing the point. Fine, maybe the math is off and it took 3 days instead of 2. The issue is that Cursor tends to be demoed for incredibly small, green, and simple projects. Most of us are working on codebases with at least over 10 million lines. I would love an AI agent that can massive infrastructure migrations with only a bit of oversight. Didn’t Shopify do something like that recently? I think this is still an area that needs a lot of work.
- impjohn 2y agoI've been personally surprised that this doesn't come up more often. Most mature codebases span a decade or more, and especially in the web, there's so many layers of evolving technologies that were introduced during this time, resulting in complex geological layers forming in the codebase as the patterns evolved. That is not only a lot of lines of code, but a lot of nuance as well. Even a basic problem like routing can make these AIs fall flat on their face because of the sheer context and complexities involved