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Sparkyte04/02/20251 replyview on HN

Definitely squeezed.

They say AI, but AI isn't eliminating programming. I've wrote a few applications with AI assistance. It probably would've been faster if I wrote it myself. The problem is that it doesn't have context and wildly assumes what your intentions are and cheats outcomes.

It will replace juniors for that one liner, it won't replace a senior developer who knows how to write code.


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NERD_ALERT04/02/2025

I felt this way with Github Copilot but I started using Cursor this week and it genuinely feels like a competent pair programmer.

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