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An AI company dogfooding their own marketing. It's almost admirable in a way.
I worry that they don't understand the limitations of their own product.
The market will teach them. Problem solved.
Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
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Re: Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
#152It’s the small things like this that made me switch to windsurf.
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Slack was a similar thing. IPO'd at 10 million users with 400M in revenue but got destroyed by Microsoft thanks to Teams. Cursor is at a worse position and at greater risk of ending up like Slack very quickly and Microsoft will do the exact same thing they did to Slack. This time by extinguishing (EEE) them by racing prices of VSCode + Copilot close to zero, until it is free. The best thing Cursor should do is for Op…
Wait, what?! Slack got destroyed by Teams? You seem to be living a few parallel universes away from the one I'm in.
Yes, "destroyed" is apt. See the graph under "Slack vs Microsoft Teams: Users" here: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/slack-statistics/
Re: Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
#154LLM anything makes me queasy. Why would any self respecting software developer use this tripe? Learn how to write good software. Become an expert in the trade. AI anything will only dig a hole for software to die in. Cheapens the product, butchers the process and absolutely decimates any hope for skill development for future junior developers. I'll just keep chugging along, with debian, python and vim, as I always ha…
I’m pretty much in the same boat as you, but here’s one place that LLMs helped me: In python I was scanning 1000’s of files each for thousands of keywords. A naive implementation took around 10 seconds, obviously the largest share of execution time after running instrumentation. A quick ChatGPT led me to Aho-Corasick and String searching algorithms, which I had never used before. Plug in a library and bam, 30x speed…
> I could have asked my knowledgeable friends and coworkers, but not at 11PM on a Saturday.
Get friends with weirder daily schedules. :-)
Re: Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
#155LLM anything makes me queasy. Why would any self respecting software developer use this tripe? Learn how to write good software. Become an expert in the trade. AI anything will only dig a hole for software to die in. Cheapens the product, butchers the process and absolutely decimates any hope for skill development for future junior developers. I'll just keep chugging along, with debian, python and vim, as I always ha…
I’m pretty much in the same boat as you, but here’s one place that LLMs helped me: In python I was scanning 1000’s of files each for thousands of keywords. A naive implementation took around 10 seconds, obviously the largest share of execution time after running instrumentation. A quick ChatGPT led me to Aho-Corasick and String searching algorithms, which I had never used before. Plug in a library and bam, 30x speed…
Yes! This is how AI should be used. You have a question that’s quite difficult and may not score well on traditional keyword matching. An LLM can use pattern matching to point you in the right direction of well written library based on CS research and/or best practices.
Re: Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
#1561. Whenever AI is used closed loop, with human feedback and a human checking the output for quality/hallucinations and then passing it along, it's often fine.
2. Whenever it is used totally on its own, with no humans in the loop, it's awful and shit like this happens.
Yet, every AI company seems to want to pretend we're ready for #2, they market their products as #2, they convince their C-suite customers that their companies should buy #2, and it's total bullshit--we're so far from that. AI tools can barely augment a human in the driver's seat. It's not even close to being ready to operate on its own.
Re: Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
#157I've had a very good experience with Cursor on small Typescript projects.
It started hallucinating a lot as my typescript project got bigger.
I found it pretty useless in languages like Go and C++.
I ended up canceling Cursor this month. It was messing up working code, suggesting random changes, and ultimately increasing my cognitive load instead of reducing it.
Re: Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
#158LLM anything makes me queasy. Why would any self respecting software developer use this tripe? Learn how to write good software. Become an expert in the trade. AI anything will only dig a hole for software to die in. Cheapens the product, butchers the process and absolutely decimates any hope for skill development for future junior developers. I'll just keep chugging along, with debian, python and vim, as I always ha…
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Job market for knowledge jobs isn’t even that good anymore and plenty of people expect it to get worse regardless of their stance on AI. What makes you so sure that LLM users have a bank to laugh all the way to? Already there are many like you, the money you’d make is peanuts
Re: Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
#159LLM anything makes me queasy. Why would any self respecting software developer use this tripe? Learn how to write good software. Become an expert in the trade. AI anything will only dig a hole for software to die in. Cheapens the product, butchers the process and absolutely decimates any hope for skill development for future junior developers. I'll just keep chugging along, with debian, python and vim, as I always ha…
I’m pretty much in the same boat as you, but here’s one place that LLMs helped me: In python I was scanning 1000’s of files each for thousands of keywords. A naive implementation took around 10 seconds, obviously the largest share of execution time after running instrumentation. A quick ChatGPT led me to Aho-Corasick and String searching algorithms, which I had never used before. Plug in a library and bam, 30x speed…
I mean, even in the absence of knowledge of the existence of text searching algorithms (where I'm from we learn that in university) just a simple web search would have gotten you there as well no? Maybe would have taken a few minutes longer though.
Re: Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations
#160This is "AGI's finest". It's what we all wanted. Replacing your human support team to be run exclusively by AI LLM bots whilst they hallucinate to their users. All unchecked. Now this bug has now turned into a multi-million dollar mistake and costed Cursor to lose millions of dollars overnight. What if this was a critical control system in a hospital or energy company and their AI support team (with zero humans) hall…
It's a Reddit post with 65 upvotes. Where are people getting millions of dollars overnight? HN is too dramatic lol
Even if they generously compensate locked out users, they'll probably end up ahead using the AI bot.