Mixed
As things move from prototype to production ready the productivity starts to become a wash for me
gregwebs on Hacker News
In the thread “I use Cursor daily - here's how I avoid the garbage parts”
Helped: Writing greenfield code and small additions via tab completions.
Got in the way: Organizing code, keeping it DRY, and refactoring complex code.
… It can get a complex task using hundreds of lines of code right on the first try or perhaps it needs a second try on the prompt and an additional tweak of the output code. As things move from prototype to production ready the productivity starts to become a wash for me. AI doesn’t do a good job organizing the code and keeping it DRY. …