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by fakedang 640 days ago
Or people who can be product owners and can prompt LLMs to code (because I know him, that's me!).

I'm awestruck by how good Claude and Cursor are. I've been building a semi-heavy-duty tech product, and I'm amazed by how much progress I've made in a week, using a NextJS stack, without knowing a lick of React in the first place (I know the concepts, but not the JS/NextJS vocab). All the code has been delivered with proper separation of concerns, clean architecture and modularization. Any time I get an error, I can reason with it to find the issue together. And if Claude is stuck (or I'm past my 5x usage lol), I just pair programme with ChatGPT instead.

Meanwhile Google just continues to serve me outdated shit from preCovid.

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I’m afraid these tools are really good at getting beginners 90% of the way there, but no further.
90% of the way is still good enough for me because I can manage to think up and get through the rest of the 10%. The problem for me was that the 90% looked so overwhelming earlier and that would shy me away from pursuing that project at all.
I'm curious, with Cursor, why do you still need to use Claude?
I just started using Cursor a few days back, so still need to get a hold of all the keyboard shortcuts properly.