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TBH, I feel like the biggest help Cursor gives me is with understanding large-ish legacy codebases. It's an excellent (& active) "rubber duck". So I'm not sure
by virgilp 1y ago
TBH, I feel like the biggest help Cursor gives me is with understanding large-ish legacy codebases. It's an excellent (& active) "rubber duck". So I'm not sure the argument holds - LLMs don't just write code.
- gabrielso 1y agoI'm not having the same positive experience on a >25yo insanely large and codebase built with questionable engineering practices
- octo888 1y agoOr is it just giving you a limited understanding but pretending it's grokked the entire codebase AND data?
- zeroCalories 1y agoYeah I've run several SOTA tools on our gnarly legacy codebase(because I desperately need help), and the results are very disappointing. I think you can only evaluate how well a tool understands a codebase if you already know it well enough to not need it. This makes me hesitant to use it in any situation where I do need it.
- virgilp 1y agoBut that's already way better than a physical rubber duck. That was my point.