I didn't enjoy any productivity boost on top of what GitHub Copilot already gave me
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25%
In the thread “Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with Software Developers”, replying to this comment
Helped: Creating new projects from scratch using OpenAPI schemas.
Got in the way: Providing productivity boosts on existing large codebases.
… I've been using Cursor for around 10 days on a massive Ruby on Rails project (a stack I've been coding in for +13 years). I didn't enjoy any productivity boost on top of what GitHub Copilot already gave me (which I'd estimate around the 25% mark). However, for crafting a new project from scratch (empty folder) in, say, Node.js, it's uncanny; I can get an API serving requests from a OpenAPI schema (serving the OpenAPI schema via swagger) in ~5 minutes just by prompting. …