but what about this Cursor AI IDE ...
i know it's cheating to code by just asking questions in an IDE, but it's quite impressive that it spits out stuff that works. it might be garbage, but then i have to learn new stuff to check it.
AI feels kinda like discovery of magnets and thinking they are "waking up the souls of materials" (100 years of solitude). but there's definitely something there if I went from just thinking about trying to code to actually coding something.
It was good until Cursor decided to intoroduce the "auto" model select (which is on ny default and tends to choose the most lobotomized version) to save $. Now it's just ok-mediocer (sp?).
People are taring them a new one on their forums. Hopefully they'll listen. My dumb-ass pre-paid fror the full year (not knowing they were gonna nerf it).
the real problem is well written code and built repositories are extremely rare
the learning process is easy to codify and express, but nobody got time for that in fiat world
they just learn some set of things and frameworks and then you are supposedly competent
when i was young enough to do CS it was reasonably well laid out, but years of commie governments endlessly pandering to banksters has led to the situation where really nobody who hasn't done their own self study or done 3 years of a CS degree can even start to learn how to write code properly.
using a search engine is not cheating, but it's a poor substitute for primary training in the basics of the subject.
only people who barely write scripts think this new shit is worth anything, because they get the gratification of something that sorta works. but then, they don't know how to extend it, and they don't understand what it did, and they just tear it all up and start again, because they are still beginners, and haven't grasped the basics.
i see, so they're building the McMansions of the code world
yeah, pretty much the virus of stupidity from web dev is gonna leak into the middle of the stack and it's gonna be ugly. it literally can't be used for advanced systems programming except maybe as a learning tool to find simple stuff, that previously most would have searched rosettacode or wikipedia for. it doesn't improve upon those sources, at least they have had quite some time to get a bit more mature, this stuff is fresh steaming bullshit nonstop.
