Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
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Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
#2Quite reasonable of it to do so I'd say.
The AI tools are good, and they have their uses, but they are currently at best at a keen junior/intern level, making the same sort of mistakes. You need knowledge and experience to help mentor that sort of developer.
Give it another year or two and I hope they the student will become the master and start mentoring me :)
Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
#3Had extremely bad experience with Cursor/Claude.
Have a big Angular project, +/- 150 TS files. Upgraded it to Angular 19 and now I can optimize build by marking all components, pipes, services etc as "standalone" essentially eliminating the need for modules and simplifying code.
I thought it is perfect for AI as it is straight forward refactor work but would be annoying for a human.
1. Search every service and remove the "standalone: false"
2. Find module where it is declared, remove that module
3. Find all files where module was imported, import the service itself
Cursor and Claude constantly was losing focus, refactoring services without taking care of modules/imports at all and generally making things much worse no matter how hard "prompt engineering" I tried. I gave up and made a Jira task for a junior developer instead.
Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
#4Quite reasonable of it to do so I'd say. The AI tools are good, and they have their uses, but they are currently at best at a keen junior/intern level, making the same sort of mistakes. You need knowledge and experience to help mentor that sort of developer. Give it another year or two and I hope they the student will become the master and start mentoring me :)
My biggest worry about AI is that it will do all the basic stuff, so people will never have a chance to learn and move on to the more complex stuff. I think there's a name for this, but I can't find it right now. In the hands of a tenured expert though, AI should be a big step up.
Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
#5Had extremely bad experience with Cursor/Claude. Have a big Angular project, +/- 150 TS files. Upgraded it to Angular 19 and now I can optimize build by marking all components, pipes, services etc as "standalone" essentially eliminating the need for modules and simplifying code. I thought it is perfect for AI as it is straight forward refactor work but would be annoying for a human. 1. Search every service and remove…
Sounds like Claude "has" ADHD lol
Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
#6Attitude AI
Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
#7I wonder if this was real or if they set a custom prompt to try and force such a response.
If it is real, then I guess it's because LLMs have been trained on a bunch of places where students asked other people to do their homework.
Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
#8Quite reasonable of it to do so I'd say. The AI tools are good, and they have their uses, but they are currently at best at a keen junior/intern level, making the same sort of mistakes. You need knowledge and experience to help mentor that sort of developer. Give it another year or two and I hope they the student will become the master and start mentoring me :)
My biggest worry about AI is that it will do all the basic stuff, so people will never have a chance to learn and move on to the more complex stuff. I think there's a name for this, but I can't find it right now. In the hands of a tenured expert though, AI should be a big step up.
Played a game called Beyond a Steel Sky (sequel to the older beneath a steel sky).
In the starting section there was an "engineer" going around fixing stuff. He just pointed his AI tool at the thing, and followed the instructions, while not knowing what he's doing at any point. That's what I see happening
Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
#9This is quite a lot of code to handle in 1 file. The recommendation is actually good in the past(month - feels like 1 year of planning) I've made similar mistakes with tens of projects - having files larger than 500-600 lines of code - Claude was removing some of the code and I didn't have coverage on some of them and the end result was missing functionality.
Good thing that we can use .cursorrules so this is something that partially will improve my experience - until a random company releases the best AI coding model that runs on a Rassbery Pi with 4GB ram(yes this is a spoiler from the future).
Re: Cursor told me I should learn coding instead of asking it to generate it
#10Had extremely bad experience with Cursor/Claude. Have a big Angular project, +/- 150 TS files. Upgraded it to Angular 19 and now I can optimize build by marking all components, pipes, services etc as "standalone" essentially eliminating the need for modules and simplifying code. I thought it is perfect for AI as it is straight forward refactor work but would be annoying for a human. 1. Search every service and remove…
Yes it feels like refactoring would be a perfect use case for LLMs but it only works for very simple cases. I've tried several times to do bigger refactors spanning several files with Cursor and it always failed. I think it's a combination of context window being not big enough and also tooling/prompting could probably be improved to better support the use case of refactoring.