Comment by Glyptodon
21 hours ago
I don't know. Cursor is decent at refactoring. ("Look at x and ____ so that it ____." With some level of elaboration, where the change is code or code organization centric.)
And it's okay at basic generation - "write a map or hash table wrapper where the input is a TZDB zone and the output is ______" will create something reasonable and get some of the TZDB zones wrong.
But it hasn't been that great for me at really extensive conceptual coding so far. Though maybe I'm bad at prompting.
Might be there's something I'm missing w/ my prompts.
For me, the hard part of programming is figuring out what I want to do. Sometimes talking with an AI helps with that, but with bugs like “1 out of 100 times a user follows this path, a message gets lost somewhere in our pipeline”, which are the type of bugs that really require knowledge and skill, AIs are completely worthless.