Comment by antonvs
6 hours ago
FTA:
> tools like Cursor can be genuinely helpful as glorified autocomplete and refactoring assistants
That suggests a fairly strong anti-AI bias by the author. Anyone who thinks that this is all AI coding tools are today is not actually using them seriously.
That's not to say that this exercise wasn't overhyped, but a more useful, less biased article that's not trying to push an agenda would look at what went right, as well as what went wrong.
No, it suggests the sarcasm that is the Registers in house style. See the page tagline.... "Biting the hand that feeds IT"
That’s a dubious assumption. In the context of the rest of this article, it doesn’t seem like sarcasm.