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> And this is not a cherry-picked example by me. This is the first thing Cursor shows potential customers to demonstrate how good this AI-powered tooling allege
by joshstrange 1y ago
> And this is not a cherry-picked example by me. This is the first thing Cursor shows potential customers to demonstrate how good this AI-powered tooling allegedly is
I think this perfectly encompasses "vibe coding" [0], "Hey, it looks cool. Ship it. Don't worry about what's under the hood!".
[0] I'm using this term to specifically mean people using LLMs to write code with with doing very little or no checking of the code it writes, just what the website/app looks like.
- latk 1y agoAuthor here. Yep, that's close to my thinking. I don't actually believe that Cursor (or similar tools) are completely shit. But I worry that the Cursor team perhaps doesn't care whether their product actually delivers value. That they just want to sell the appearance of productivity. This, to me, is a much bigger concern than everyday performance of their tool. Tools can be improved, organizational culture usually not. But this is wild speculation. I didn't want to write this as the conclusion of the actual article, which tried to be more factual and to take their marketing at face value.