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YesClaude, Aider · 1 Oct 2024

the Cursor code review feature, which has caught a lot of subtle bugs for me

throwup238 on Hacker News

In the thread “Ask HN: How to deal with AI generated sloppy code”

Helped: Code review features and repo indexing for understanding codebases.

Got in the way: UX for refactoring advice is not there yet.

… Use aider’s repomap or Cursor’s repo indexing features and ask the LLM questions about the codebase. Use the Cursor code review feature, which has caught a lot of subtle bugs for me (I ignored the feature for my first month and was pleasantly surprised when I first used it in lieu of debugging a PR). Experiment with asking the LLM to refactor the codebase since now their token windows are large enough to fit ten thousand plus lines. …