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by consumer451 560 days ago
I am curious if you have played with Claude-based agent tools like Windsurf IDE at all, and if you find that interesting.

I am a product-ish guy, who has a basic understanding of SQL, Django, React, Typescript, etc.. and suddenly I'm like an MVP v0.1 a week, all by myself.

Do folks at your level find things like Cline, Cursor, and Windsurf useful at all?

Windsurf IDE (Sonnet) blows my mind.
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nichochar 560 days ago
I am building https://srcbook.com which is in this category but focused on webapps.

It's unreal what the AI can do tbh.

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blharr 559 days ago
It's impressive. I want to be a doubter and say I feel like it just shows what you can do with tailwind/typescript in getting a nice UI out, but it really would be genuinely useful for some cases.

The problem I have with it is that how do you get out of a corner with it? Once I start having problems with the application -- I asked it to generate a search engine for different websites, but one of the API endpoints wasn't working. It kept trying over and over again but failed to get it working.

It's - like other attempts I've had with AI - more frustrating to work with. It'll say "I fixed this" and then have a problem where it created more problems with what it's fixing. I thought it finally worked 100% but it just made it look better by breaking something else without actually fixing the issue.

Admittedly, it took what might have been a day's work into a couple hours, but now I have a chunk of code that I don't understand and will be deliberately harder to understand than if I wrote it myself.

It still feels like I'm trying to coax an intern into working a project, rather than having an application that actually does the work for me.

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hackernewds 560 days ago
why windsurf as opposed to something mainstream like vs or cursor? unless there's some conflict of interest
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consumer451 560 days ago
Nahh, I am open to all of it. Windsurf is just the one that caught my attention at the right time. I mentioned 2 comps in op, but Windsurf just happens to be the one that got me.

I have not done a comparison of all of them. I am on an old ThinkPad, so Cursor is out right there, for now.

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