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MixedCursor · 12 Mar 2025

I feel a lot faster but there’s been a noticeable decrease in the quality of my work

rco8786 on Hacker News

In the thread “I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts”, replying to this comment

Helped: Increased speed of work.

Got in the way: More mistakes leaking into PRs and decreased quality.

… A lot more mistakes leaking into my PRs. I feel a lot faster but there’s been a noticeable decrease in the quality of my work. Obviously I could just better review my own code, but that’s proving easier said than done to the point where I’m considering going back to vanilla Code.