Comment by embedding-shape
6 hours ago
Thanks, means a lot. As the author of one such article (that might have been the catalyst even), I'm guilty of this myself, and as I dove deeper into understanding what Cursor actually built, and what they think was the "success", the less sense everything made to me.
That's why taking a step back and seeing what's actually hard in the process and bad with the output, felt like it made more sense to chase after, rather than anything else.
I think the Cursor example is as bad as it gets and this is as good as it gets.
FWIW I ran your binary and was pleasantly surprised, but my low expectations probably helped ;)
I'm glad I could take people on a journey that first highlighted what absolutely sucks, to presenting something that seemingly people get pleasantly surprised by! Can't ask for more really :)
What is interesting is that yours is the first example of what this tech can do that resonates with me, the things I've seen posted so far do not pass the test for excitement, it's just slop and it tries to impress by being a large amount of slop. I've done some local experiments but the results were underwhelming (to put it mildly) even for tiny problems.
The next challenge I think would be to prove that no reference implementation code leaked into the produced code. And finally, this being the work product of an AI process you can't claim copyright, but someone else could claim infringement so beware of that little loophole.
1 reply →