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YesCursor · 7 Sep 2024

cursor has saved me _hours_ it's generally terrible at any actual code refactoring, but it has saved me a great deal of typing while adding the missing test coverage

eric_h on Hacker News

saved me _hours_

In the thread “Effects of Gen AI on High Skilled Work: Experiments with Software Developers”, replying to this comment

Helped: Adding missing test coverage to codebase with no tests.

Got in the way: Actual code refactoring tasks.

I recently switched to cursor, and am in the process of wrangling an inherited codebase that had effectively no tests and cursor has saved me _hours_ it's generally terrible at any actual code refactoring, but it has saved me a great deal of typing while adding the missing test coverage.