I spent a few hours trying cursor. I was impressed at first, I liked the feel of it and I tried to vibe code, whatever that means.
I tried to get it to build a very simple version of an app I’ve been working on. But the basics didn’t work, and as I got it to fix some functionality other stuff broke. It repeatedly nuked the entire web app, then rolled back again and again. It tried quick and dirty solutions that would lead to dead ends in just a few more features. No sense of elegance or foundational abstractions.
The code it produced was actually OK, and I could have fixed the bugs given enough time, but overall the results were far inferior to every programmer I’ve ever worked with.
On the design side, the app was ugly as hell and I couldn’t get it to fix that at all.
Autocomplete on a local level seems far more useful.
I tried to get it to build a very simple version of an app I’ve been working on. But the basics didn’t work, and as I got it to fix some functionality other stuff broke. It repeatedly nuked the entire web app, then rolled back again and again. It tried quick and dirty solutions that would lead to dead ends in just a few more features. No sense of elegance or foundational abstractions.
The code it produced was actually OK, and I could have fixed the bugs given enough time, but overall the results were far inferior to every programmer I’ve ever worked with.
On the design side, the app was ugly as hell and I couldn’t get it to fix that at all.
Autocomplete on a local level seems far more useful.