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After 6 weeks with Cursor, I feel like I'm starting to get an understanding on how to get the most benefit from AI in my daily coding ✅ Turning off Cursor autocomplete has been the biggest boost in improving my daily interactions with AI, productivity and code quality

Pitfalls of AI in 2024: ❌ Autocomplete often removes the space/time to think about what I'm implementing ❌ Often the suggestion will look ok on the surface but is riddled with hard to spot bugs that take ages to find ❌ Chat feature often makes up fake APIs for newer tech e.g. SwiftUI or Bun

✅ AI is exceptionally good at command line scripting and regex ✅ AI is really good at implementing and optimising CI/CD pipelines. Spinning up GitHub Actions for parallelised matrixes in a monorepo takes seconds ✅ Rubber ducking code is a breeze with AI and it can simplify legacy code quickly

My experience as well. If I have questions about things I’m an expert at, it really sucks. But it excels getting the basics down in areas I’m weak at.

Totally agree! How have you found it for learning something completely new? I think it’s great at explaining things that you’re aware of but need clarification. But when it comes to learning new technology from scratch, it’s not there yet to teach it or replace searching the official docs