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YesCursor · 23 Nov 2025

If the employer gives you time to code properly, read, revise, it's all great

muzani on Hacker News

10k LOC in a day

In the thread “Ask HN: Can you share what you built using Cursor/Agentic IDEs?”

Helped: Grep, running tests, and having time to read and revise code.

Got in the way: Expecting 2x work with half people; custom SDKs and GPT-5 integration.

… The bad stuff comes from expecting 2x the work done with half the people. If the employer gives you time to code properly, read, revise, it's all great. You'd be writing code faster, reading more code, understanding more code, having many eyes reviewing the code. …