Mixed
Very rarely does AI write code that I feel would last a year without needing to be rewritten
827a on Hacker News
~5% of tickets
In the thread “Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?”
Helped: Exploratory research and quick scripts.
Got in the way: Following instructions in Cursor rules.
… - Using it for exploratory high level research and summarization into unfamiliar repos is pretty nice. - Very rarely does AI write code that I feel would last a year without needing to be rewritten. That makes it good for things like knocking out a quick script or updating a button color. …