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Before GitHub Copilot was a paid feature. This only shows to the Cursor team that they are going to the right direction. The slow elephant enterprise GitHub will never be as good/fast as Cursor, they had their chance but they have joined the party of "keeping the devs under our umbrella with free features" too late.
I don't want my work to depend on proprietary or even worse, online, software. We (software engineer) got lucky that all the good tools are free software and I feel we have a collective interest in making sure it stays that way (unless we want to be like farmers having to pay Monsanto tax for just being able to work because we don't know how to work differently anymore)
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> I don't want to support AI or have my code trained on AI. What are your arguments for this?
1. I believe AI is detrimental. It makes us go too fast. It's all about production now, pure efficiency over individuals. 2. AI is too dangerous. Whatever innovations used for benign applications will be eventually used for more dangerous applications such as advanced genetic engineering and the military. 3. AI uses too much energy. It's disrespectful to the resources that we have. 4. AI is an apex technology amongst…
The AI proponents that support this have no serious solution to the mass displacement of jobs thanks to AI. They actually don't mention any alternative solutions and instead scream about nonsense such as UBI which has never worked at a large sustainable scale.
> Society needs to slow down and find alternative, more sustainable solutions. AI is aligned with short-term economic efficiency and that is detrimental.
I don't think they can come up with sensible alternatives or any sustainable solutions to the jobs displaced as there is no alternative.
But I am just venting. All of yall have clearly won, I get it. I am just grateful I have lived a full life doing other things other than computers, so this all isn't too sad other than the prospect of being poor again.
I will always have my beautiful emacs and I will always be hacking. I will always have my Stallman, my Knuth, my Andy Wingo, my SICP. I feel it is accomplishment enough to have progressed in this career as I have, especially as a self taught developer. But I kinda want to let yall deal with slop now, you really seem to like it!
Maybe I'll get another degree now, or just make some silly music and video games again. It's liberating just thinking about being free from this "new way" we work now.
Thanks for all the fish though!
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Has anyone who uses an IDE (e.g., JetBrains, not a code editor) moved to Cursor? I've downloaded it a few times because everyone raves about it, but I've always come back almost immediately because editors can't reliably make changes across projects (among many other things)... What am I missing? FWIW I use GoLand w/ Supermaven, currently.
This is the main sticking point for me, I'm not leaving JetBrains anytime soon. GitHub Copilot + Aider handle my needs beautifully and while I wish Aider had deep IDE integration I can work around that (Yes, I know about the "AI!" command thing, it's a cool idea but sucks in practice). Aider in browser mode has pretty much replaced my back and forth to ChatGPT/Claude's web UI to the point that I'm considering going A…
or
qwen2.5-coder:32b-instruct-q5_K_M (~23 GB)
or
gemma2:9b-instruct-q6_K (~7.5 GB)
and
https://github.com/bernardo-bruning/ollama-copilot
or alternatively:
https://github.com/ollama/ollama + https://github.com/olimorris/codecompanion.nvim
I ditched Copilot for Cursor and never looked back. Cursor might be the only other AI product with product market fit than ChatGPT, it's that good
Has anyone who uses an IDE (e.g., JetBrains, not a code editor) moved to Cursor? I've downloaded it a few times because everyone raves about it, but I've always come back almost immediately because editors can't reliably make changes across projects (among many other things)... What am I missing? FWIW I use GoLand w/ Supermaven, currently.
I ditched Copilot for Cursor and never looked back. Cursor might be the only other AI product with product market fit than ChatGPT, it's that good
We are allowed Copilot and Chatgpt because of an enterprise contract with each. Luckily copilot has been improving but there definitely was a while where it felt way behind the jumps other products have had in the past year or so.
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1. I believe AI is detrimental. It makes us go too fast. It's all about production now, pure efficiency over individuals. 2. AI is too dangerous. Whatever innovations used for benign applications will be eventually used for more dangerous applications such as advanced genetic engineering and the military. 3. AI uses too much energy. It's disrespectful to the resources that we have. 4. AI is an apex technology amongst…
Thank you for your reply. I am currently having a ride with chatgpt allowing me to write applications at 3 times the speed compared to before (where before may be "never" for some technologies) and I am happy for everyone contributing to this. But all your points are well grounded, I will have to figure out a way to think about them, while keeping my day job.