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YesCursor, Claude · 22 May 2025

It has enabled me to move at least 10x the speed of implementation and debugging

miketromba on Hacker News

10x the speed of implementation and debugging

In the thread “After months of coding with LLMs, I'm going back to using my brain”

Helped: Using it for implementation after doing planning, design, and architecture myself.

Got in the way: It makes mistakes, uses poor naming, and fails to reuse existing modules.

… It has modeled ~0% of the data layer in the codebase. It has enabled me to move at least 10x the speed of implementation and debugging (yes, it is incredible at debugging if you use the right techniques). I use the word implementation because that is almost exclusively what I use it for. …