Just the other day I used cursor and iteratively implemented stories for 70 .vue files in few hours, while also writing documentation for the components and pages, and with the documentation being further fed to cursor, to write many E2Es, something that would've taken me at least few days if not a week
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70 .vue files in few hours
In the thread “A messy experiment that changed how I think about AI code analysis”, replying to this comment
Helped: Iterative implementation of stories, docs, and E2Es for many files.
Got in the way: Coworkers focused on petty flaws rather than tangible benefits.
I am more and more convinced that many engineers are very defensive about AI and would rather point out any flaw than think how to leverage the tools to get any benefit out of them. Just the other day I used cursor and iteratively implemented stories for 70 .vue files in few hours, while also writing documentation for the components and pages, and with the documentation being further fed to cursor, to write many E2Es, something that would've taken me at least few days if not a week. When I shared that with some coworkers they went into a hunt to find all the shortcomings (often petty duplication of mocks, sometimes missing a story scenario, nothing major). …