I'm about 50kloc into a project making a react native app / golang backend for recipes with grocery lists, collaborative editing, household sharing, so a complex data model and runtime. Purely from the experiment of "what's it like to build with AI, no lines of code directly written, just directing the AI." As I go through features, I'm comparing a matrix of Cursor, Cline, and Roo, with the various models. While I'm…
"no lines of code directly written, just directing the AI" /skeptical face. Without fail, every. single. person. I've met who says that, actually means "except for the code that I write", or "except for how I link the code it build together by hand". If you are 50kloc in to a large complex project that you have literally written none of, and have, eg. used cursor to generate the code without any assistance... well, y…
In a way the AI becomes the dev and you become the code reviewer. Often as the AI is writing the code, you're thinking about the next step.