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I do the same now, I don't use Cursor or similar edit-level AI tools anymore, I just use inline text completions and chat to talk through a problem, and then, I
by satvikpendem 2y ago
I do the same now, I don't use Cursor or similar edit-level AI tools anymore, I just use inline text completions and chat to talk through a problem, and then, I'll copy-paste anything needed (or rather type it in manually just to have more control).
I literally felt myself getting AI brain rot, as one Ask HN put it recently, where it felt like I started losing brain cells and depended too much on the AI over my own thinking and felt my skills atrophy. At the end of the day, in the future, I sense there will be a much wider gap between those that truly know how to code, and those that, well, don't, due to such over-reliance on AI.
- greyman 2y agoI also stopped using Cline as well as Claude Desktop + MCPs. Gemini for example is rushing forward, Google surely is putting huge resources into developing it, and if in the matter of months AI will be able to implement additional feature itself in 0-shot, why bother with IDE?
- satvikpendem 2y agoAnd what will you do when that zero shot doesn't work, and continues not to work? It will always be necessary to dig in and manually change things, hence an editor or IDE will continue to be needed.
- greyman 2y agoYes this happens. Then I use "dumb" IDE like Goland... or, I didn't stop using it. My point is that I currently do not invest my time into learning "agentic IDE" like Cursor, since I am not sure this is something useful in the future.