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dpcan

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About dpcan

Tech person.

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    Comment #48620197

    I'd go this direction as long as it had a real keyboard... Maybe it's time for the blackberry to reemerge.

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    Comment #48520783

    I cannot figure out what people are doing to spend all this money. I have used a $60 per month Cursor plan on auto, and have never come close to using up my included usage, and I p…

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    Comment #48436651

    I’m a devils advocate on this argument. Yes, a big company can take it away, but I think they have to leave it online long enough to get your money’s worth. So if I have a game for…

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    Comment #48436602

    The problem with “code quality” and LLM’s taking over your first 3 “pillars” is basically that LLM’s don’t care. I recently had Cursor evaluate a huge code base that we took over. …

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    Comment #48428115

    Day 1. I remember firing up gpt and asking for some code. It was simple JavaScript to solve a problem and I knew immediately, this was the beginning of the end for software develop…

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    Comment #47660339

    You can ask AI to comment an entire code base now in as much detail as you need.

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    Comment #46692949

    Yes, constantly. I don’t know what I do differently, but I can get Cursor to do exactly what I want all the time. Maybe it’s because it takes more time and effort, and I don’t conn…

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    Comment #46578129

    For personal projects: Used ai to create my own mind mapping tool for private use. I also created a private cursor-like / loveable-like tool that I can use for my own vibe code pro…

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    Comment #46071568

    When it comes to games I absolutely don’t care what they used AI for because the point of games is to be fun. If it’s fun and you used AI, that’s fine with me. The game served its …

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    Comment #45553512

    Adobe Fireworks - easiest vector / photo editor crossover app there ever was.

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    Comment #45553498

    Adobe Animate is still just Flash from a tool-standoint. Are you referring to the SWF file format?

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    Comment #45415388

    I feel like I can't really have fun and be myself when I see people shooting video all around me. I like to be silly with my kids and close friends, I like to act out around the pe…

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    Comment #44298893

    My favorite example, and the ones I show my team and my employer, is that I can have AI look at a string of fields for my database table and generate all the views for the display,…

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    Comment #44298835

    I have a $20/month GPT subscription, and the $20/month cursor plan. I've yet to come close to going over my limits with either service. I use the unlimited Tab completions in curso…

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    Comment #44295447

    This article is just simply not true for most people who have figured out how to use AI properly when coding. Since switching to Cursor, my coding speed and efficiency has probably…

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    Comment #44043931

    This is really interesting, got it up and running very quickly. I'm not sure what the use case is and it doesn't auto-load chromium with its own web server from what I can tell. Is…

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    Comment #42967893

    Wild West Domains is a subsidiary of GoDaddy. They are basically he same company, and the Whois doesn't usually show the owner of the domain anymore, it shows the company that's ke…

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    Comment #42499610

    I’ve been doing this a looooooong time. And that’s really about it. Every time a popup or tooltip covers code around my cursor I groan in agony. I’d probably use it if the tool tip…

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    Comment #42396535

    I own an escape room business with one, two-part, room and it does about this or much more in some months. The problem is, unlike so many examples in these threads, this business r…

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    Comment #41741587

    You know it’s going to happen: “I want a funny road trip movie staring Jim Carey and Chris Farley, based in Europe, in the fall, where they have to rescue their mom played by Lucil…

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    Comment #38830537

    Good list. Creating your own desktop environment is an incredible “hello world” into serious and more advanced JavaScript development.

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    Comment #36708806

    What about the simple fact that if I’m not going to the blog’s website directly, I’m not seeing or clicking on the Google adsense ads they were displaying? Or that you weren’t typi…

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    Comment #36600257

    For me, it has now been 2.5 years since having watched any local, national or cable news. The stuff is poison. I also deleted Facebook around the same time to stay away from it thr…

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    Comment #36566820

    Like tweeting without Twitter.

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    Comment #36495281

    I have lived by these words for many years: “Every time I’m wrong, I learn something new.” I repeat this to myself. I look for reasons to be wrong. Everything I think I know how to…