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MixedCursor · 16 Jun 2025

For my main job, writing code in a vast codebase with internal frameworks everywhere, it’s reasonably useless

muglug on Hacker News

In the thread “Coding agents have crossed a chasm”, replying to this comment

Helped: Greenfield work and much smaller codebases.

Got in the way: Writing code in a vast codebase with internal frameworks everywhere.

… My company pays for Cursor and so do I, and I’m using it with all the latest models. For my main job, writing code in a vast codebase with internal frameworks everywhere, it’s reasonably useless. For much smaller codebases it’s much better, and it’s excellent for greenfield work. …