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Trying to remember: Was cursor the one that took yc money and basically reskinned some open source project, the project that was stolen, or neither..?
I've been using AI to solve isolated problems, mainly as a replacement of search engine specifically for programming. I'm still not convinced of these "write whole block of code for me" type of use case. Here's my arguments against the videos from the article. 1. Snake case to camelCase. Even without AI we can already complete these tasks easily. VSCode itself has command of "Transform to Camel Case" for selection. I…
Oh my god get ready to waste a full weekend just to setup everything and get a formatted hello world.
Trying to remember: Was cursor the one that took yc money and basically reskinned some open source project, the project that was stolen, or neither..?
In the article, you mentioned that you've been writing code for 36 years, so don't you feel IDEs like cursor make you feel less competent? Meaning I loved the process of scratching my head over a problem and then coming to a solution but now we have AI Agents solving the problems and optimizing code which takes the fun out of it.
I’ve been using cursor for a while now and I think that if a problem is simple enough for an LLM to work out on its own, it’s probably not worth scratching one’s head over…
i think for the most part its meant to help you "get past" all the generic code you usually write in the beginning of a project, generic functions you need in almost all systems, etc.
Watching the videos in the article, the constantly changing suggested completions seem really distracting. Personally, I find this kind of workflow totally counter-productive. My own programming workflow is ~90% mental work / doing sketches with pen & paper, and ~10% writing the code. When I do sit down to write the code, I know already what I want to write, don't need suggestions.
I've been using AI to solve isolated problems, mainly as a replacement of search engine specifically for programming. I'm still not convinced of these "write whole block of code for me" type of use case. Here's my arguments against the videos from the article. 1. Snake case to camelCase. Even without AI we can already complete these tasks easily. VSCode itself has command of "Transform to Camel Case" for selection. I…
2. The last time I wrote boilerplate heavy Java code, 15+ years ago, the IDE already generated most of it for me. Nowadays boilerplate comes in two forms for me: new project setup, which I find it far quicker to use a template or just copy and gut an existing project (and it’s not like I start new projects that often anyway), or new components that follow some structure, where AI might actually be useful but I tend to just copy an existing one and gut it.
3. These aren’t tasks I really trust AI for. I still attempt to use AI for them, but 9 out of 10 times come away disappointed. And the other 1 time end up having to change a lot of it anyway.
I find a lot of value from AI, like you, asking it SO style questions. I do also use it for code snippets, eg “do this in CSS”. Its results for that are usually (but not always) reasonably good. I also use it for isolated helper functions (write a function to flood fill a grid where adjacent values match was a recent one). The results for this range from a perfect solution first try, to absolute trash. It’s still overall faster than not having AI, though. And I use it A LOT for rubber ducking.
I find AI is a useful tool, but I find a lot of the positive stories to be overblown compared to my experience with it. I also stopped using code assistants and just keep a ChatGPT tab open. I sometimes use Claude but it’s conversation length limits turned me off.
Looking at the videos in OP, I find the parallelising task to be exactly the kind of tricky and tedious task that I don’t trust AI to do, based on my experience with that kind of task, and with my experience with AI and the subtly buggy results it has given me.
I've been using AI to solve isolated problems, mainly as a replacement of search engine specifically for programming. I'm still not convinced of these "write whole block of code for me" type of use case. Here's my arguments against the videos from the article. 1. Snake case to camelCase. Even without AI we can already complete these tasks easily. VSCode itself has command of "Transform to Camel Case" for selection. I…
Have you tried recently to start a new web app from scratch? Specially the integration of frontend framework with styling and the frontend backend integration. Oh my god get ready to waste a full weekend just to setup everything and get a formatted hello world.
I've been using AI to solve isolated problems, mainly as a replacement of search engine specifically for programming. I'm still not convinced of these "write whole block of code for me" type of use case. Here's my arguments against the videos from the article. 1. Snake case to camelCase. Even without AI we can already complete these tasks easily. VSCode itself has command of "Transform to Camel Case" for selection. I…
> Boilerplate are tedious, but not really time-consuming. In the aggregate, almost no programmer can think up code faster than they can type it in. But being a better typist still helps, because it cuts down on the amount you have to hold in your head. Similar for automatically generating boilerplate. > If I don't know, how can I trust the generated code to be correct? Ask the AI for a proof of correctness. (And I'm…
I mean on the big picture level sure they can. Or in detail if it is something that they have good experience with. In many cases I get a visual of the whole code blocks, and then if I use copilot I can already predict what it is going to auto complete for me based on the context and then I can pretty much in a second know if it was right or wrong. Of course it is more so for the side projects since I know exactly what I want to do and so it feels most of the time it is having to just vomit all the code out. And I feel impatient, so copilot helps a lot with that.
I've been using AI to solve isolated problems, mainly as a replacement of search engine specifically for programming. I'm still not convinced of these "write whole block of code for me" type of use case. Here's my arguments against the videos from the article. 1. Snake case to camelCase. Even without AI we can already complete these tasks easily. VSCode itself has command of "Transform to Camel Case" for selection. I…
Have you tried recently to start a new web app from scratch? Specially the integration of frontend framework with styling and the frontend backend integration. Oh my god get ready to waste a full weekend just to setup everything and get a formatted hello world.