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by userbinator 63 days ago
So, I asked Cursor to make for me a Python script to turn those .wpost files into Markdown files. And... it did. In the first pass.

Probably because the source code of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Live_Writer at https://github.com/OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter was in its training data.

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However it came to the "knowledge," I'm glad it had it!

Seeing as I know almost nothing about reverse engineering, in this case, an LLM was a great tool in solving the problem. Yes, I could have spent the time and energy to do it myself, but this seemed like a good use case for an LLM.

There are other problem sets where I'm not using LLMs at all - like porting a lot of my procedural generation code from Typescript to Godot's GDScript.

I wonder if it supposedly knows the code so well, is it possible to use Cursor to make a port to Avalonia or some other cross-platform GUI toolkit for C#.
Valid. AI is so good that I reach for it even before doing basic searches. It's now easier to have it write a program than search for one, install it, and learn how to use it.
1/10 low effort