They got all of us addicted to AI devving and then they simply turned it off.
Everything has slowed to a crawl. Or you have to start the chat 5 times, before you get a result.
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Can't be addicted if you never use it.
Which AI got switched off?
Cursor. Total shit, now.
Staying informed on the tools I don’t use over here.
It gets one or two steps in and then just rotates. Can't believe I paid for this service. 🥴
Rough. Will avoid.
jetbrains junie is a lot better. but i still have yet to observe a series of performances from it better than 50% getting it right.
my advice about LLM coding agents is give them small specific tasks. they will cock it up more than a junior would, although they cock it up faster. after you watch it go wrong twice you just roll up your sleeves and start writing the thing it couldn't understand.
my biggest complaint is they are utterly incapable of architecture. my guess is that it would take mega-context (typical coding agents have around 20-50k context) to actually get that shit right. the agents can be improved more too, i think if the agent had a proper process for taking a whole mess and boiling it down over and over again until it comes up with an architecture diagram of the mess you want it to fix, but it probably would take at least all day on a moderately simple thing like a relay.
that's one of the advantages of having done it for so long before AI. really, idk... it doesn't help me. it just makes it more unbearably complex. 4 major bug fixes and 4 new features and i'm fed up with the mess already. *puts aside thing and starts again from the beginning*
also, that's the thing. AI can't do architecture, at least, not before next christmas.
the more a project grows the more it's about architecture. every new wingding you attach is like adding a floor to a building that didn't have a foundation for this much weight.