Comment by nialv7
21 days ago
> We invented a linguist and mistook it for an engineer.
That's not entirely true, either. Because LLMs _can_ write code, sometimes even quite well. The problem isn't that they can't code, the problem is that they aren't reliable.
Something that can code well 80% of time is as useful as something that can't code at all, because you'd need to review everything it writes to catch that 20%. And any programmer will know that reviewing code is just as hard as writing it in the first place. (Well, that's unless you just blindly trust whatever it writes. I think kids these days call that "vibe coding"....)
If that were the case, I wouldn't be using Cursor to write my code. It's definitely faster to write with Cursor, because it basically always knows what I was going to write myself anyway, so it saves me a ton of time.