Mixed
Cursor and Claude Code are by themselves awful engineers, who at best just save me a lot of keystrokes
toastercat on Hacker News
5-10% of my work
In the thread “Ask HN: With all the AI hype, how are software engineers feeling?”
Helped: Scaffolding tests, docs, and replacing search flow.
Got in the way: Acting as an engineer; only saves keystrokes.
… For me at least, it can maybe do 5-10% of my work; this usually involves scaffolding some test cases, generating some quick documentation, and just plainly replacing the Google Search -> Stack Overflow flow. Cursor and Claude Code are by themselves awful engineers, who at best just save me a lot of keystrokes.