alt Hacker NewsYesterday I gave cursor a try and made my first (intentionally very lazy) vibe coding approach (a simple threejs project). It accepted the task and did things, failed, did things, failed, did things ... failed for good.
I guess I could work on the magic incantations to tweak here and there a bit until it works and I guess that's the way it is done. But I wasn't hooked.
I do get value out of LLM's for isolated broken down subtasks, where asking a LLM is quicker than googling.
For me, AI will probably become really usefull, once I can scan and integrate my own complex codebase so it gives me solutions that work there and not hallucinate API points or jump between incompatible libary versions (my main issue).
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I’ve had the same experience with Cursor. Claude Code, though, has been a game changer. It is really excellent.
I did almost the same thing and had pretty much the same experience. A lot of times it felt so close to being great, but it ultimately wasted more time than if I had just worked on the project and occasionally asked chat GPT to generate some sample code to figure out an API