[flessner]

I recently got a new laptop and had to setup my IDE again.

After a couple hours of coding something felt "weird" - turns out I forgot to login to GitHub Copilot and I was working without it the entire time. I felt a lot more proactive and confident as I wasn't waiting on the autocomplete.

Also, Cursor was exceptional at interrupting any kind of "flow" - who even wants their next cursor position predicted?

I'll probably keep Copilot disabled for now and stick to the agent-style tools like aider for boilerplate or redundant tasks.

[ipaddr]

It's strange the pure llm workflow and boring. I still write most of my own code and will llms when I'm too lazy to write the next piece.

If I give it to an llm most of my time is spent debugging and reprompting. I hate fixing someone elses bug.

Plus I like the feeling of the coding flow..wind at my back. Each keystroke putting us one step closer.

The apps I made with llms I never want to go back to but the apps I made by hand piece by piece getting a chemical reaction when problems were solved are the ones I think positively about and want to go back to.

I always did math on paper or my head and never used a calculator. Its a skill I never have forgotten and I worry how many programmers won't be able to code without llms in the future.

[johnfn]

> who even wants their next cursor position predicted

I'm fascinated by how different workflows are. This single feature has saved me a staggering amount of time.

[baq]

> Also, Cursor was exceptional at interrupting any kind of "flow" - who even wants their next cursor position predicted?

Me, I use this all the time. It’s actually predictable and saves lots of time when doing similar edits in a large file. It’s about as powerful as multi-line regex search and replace, except you don’t have to write the regex.

[barrenko]

Same, I like agents or nothing in between.