[madeofpalk]

This article makes the fundamental flaw that the only type of programming is for Work For Other People.

For me at my day job, I find success with Cursor as “fancy autocomplete”. It’s aiding me when I am writing the code. The most code it’ll ever generate is to start on unit tests.

I’ve also used Cursor on the side for little personal hobby projects where I let to go wild in generating the overwhelming majority of code. I can’t say whether it’s faster or not, but it certainly helps reduce and overhead, initial blockers, ir lowering the barrier for myself to make something.

For those who are skeptical or haven’t tried it yet, ignore this article and just go give this new tool a decent try -carefully on your existing code base, and in no-stakes hobby projects - to form your own real opinion.

[ehutch79]

That's not vibe coding though. Vibe coding is specifically pretending code doesn't exist, and just directing an LLM to do stuff... https://x.com/karpathy/status/1886192184808149383?lang=en

[animuchan]

Yep, I also thought that the article is less about personal projects. The list of software development aspects that the author gives includes CI/CD, good documentation, and integration tests — I'd be surprised if a lot of hobby projects out there had these (apart from what's available out of the box for free, e.g. Vercel's automatic deployment from GitHub).

In the boring professional setting though, I can totally relate. The really hard questions I have to answer at work are usually not about code.

For a one-off script or a weekend project, on the other hand, even the current gen AI is a life-changing thing.