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Am I the only one who finds AI not very helpful? Just this morning, Cursor was giving me a ton of incorrect tab completions. When I use prompts, it tends to br
by gsibble 1y ago
Am I the only one who finds AI not very helpful?
Just this morning, Cursor was giving me a ton of incorrect tab completions. When I use prompts, it tends to break more than it fixes. It's still a lot faster to write by hand. Lots of libraries that take *arguments in Python also cannot be groked by AI.
- shermantanktop 1y agoOf course you aren't the only one, and I'm sure you know that you aren't the only one. I doubt these tools will ever convince every last person on every single use case, so the existence of those people isn't exactly an indictment.
- lvl155 1y agoYou have to put in some effort to put in the guardrails and scaffolds to make it produce what you want. It’s definitely not out-of-the-box deal.
- neutronicus 1y agoAt work it's supremely unhelpful. Giant C++ codebase, big enough to choke even traditional analysis tools like IntelliSense, lots of proprietary libraries. I have found it extremely useful for spinning up personal projects though. My wife bought us Claude subscriptions and she's been straight-up vibe coding an educational game for our son with impressive results (she is a UX designer so a lot more attuned to vibes than gen-pop). I'm picking up some computational physics research threads I dropped in grad school and Claude Code has been incredible at everything besides physics and HPC. Define and parse an input file format, integrate I/O libraries, turn my slapdash notes into LaTeX with nice TiKz diagrams, etc. Hoping I can transfer over some insights to make it more helpful at work.