Mixed
Things like Windsurf and Junie on the other hand seem to be mostly a waste of time as they go off and do stuff for 5-20 minutes and when they get back it is usually pretty screwed up
PaulHoule on Hacker News
In the thread “I'm tired of talking about AI”, replying to this comment
Helped: Fast feedback loop allowing quick judgment of correctness.
Got in the way: Long autonomous runs producing broken code that is hard to debug.
… I get back an answer within seconds and can make up my mind whether it is right or wrong or somewhere in between. Things like Windsurf and Junie on the other hand seem to be mostly a waste of time as they go off and do stuff for 5-20 minutes and when they get back it is usually pretty screwed up an a lot of effort to understand what's wrong with it and fix it... It's very much that "do the last 20% that is 80% of the work" experience. …