80% of the time, my workflow with Cursor looks similar to the golden path depicted in this blog post
crakhamster01 on Hacker News
80% of the time
In the thread “GitHub Copilot: The Agent Awakens”
Helped: Outlining changes, reviewing code, and iterating on suggestions for routine tasks.
Got in the way: Subtle logic bugs, incorrect error diagnosis, and inability to self-heal complex tasks.
… While I think it's extremely short-sighted that we continue to push full steam ahead on AI automating away jobs, I can't deny that LLMs have given my development flow a decent productivity boost. 80% of the time, my workflow with Cursor looks similar to the golden path depicted in this blog post - outline the changes I want made -> review the code -> suggest edits/iterate -> ship it. There's undoubtedly a class of problems where this feature can slot in and start chipping away immediately. …