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YesCursor · 4 Sep 2024

my discovery is 5x because my productivity is 10x

malux85 on Hacker News

my discovery is 5x because my productivity is 10x

In the thread “Code Smarter, Not Harder: Developing with Cursor and Claude Sonnet”, replying to this comment

Helped: Maintaining experimental momentum and verifying predictions against lab data.

Got in the way: The tool frequently led the user down the wrong path.

… Nobody is claiming it's perfect, nobody is claiming it doesn't get stuff wrong, nobody is claiming it doesn't lead you down the wrong path. It's about keeping experimental momentum up, because discovery is a factor or productivity - and my discovery is 5x because my productivity is 10x.