it wrote a python script in less than 10 seconds that converted everything exactly the way I needed
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less than 10 seconds
In the thread “The Unreliability of LLMs and What Lies Ahead”, replying to this comment
Helped: Simple transformations, boilerplate scripts, and documentation where typing is the bottleneck.
Got in the way: Getting a lot of stuff wrong in the developer readme initially.
… _Busy work_ is what you want to focus on, not anything that takes a ton of domain knowledge and intelligence. Just as an example from today, i had a huge pile of yaml documents that needed to have some transformations done to them -- they were pretty simple and obvious, but I just went into cursor, give it a before and after and a few notes, and it wrote a python script in less than 10 seconds that converted everything exactly the way I needed. Did it save me a day of work? …