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YesCursor · 30 Sep 2024

With cursor I can do what would have taken me an afternoon, previously, in an hour

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what would have taken me an afternoon, previously, in an hour

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Helped: Generating boilerplate and infrastructure quickly; providing fixes when stuck.

I'm a managing consultant, so I don't have much time to do actual work (due to having to chat up clients and tell other people what to do). With cursor I can do what would have taken me an afternoon, previously, in an hour. This is huge for me, because I can realise ideas and show people how to solve problems whereas bc (before cursor) I was reduced to saying "I'm sure that will work if we do it that way" and hoping that my folks would follow through on the thinking themselves. …