I think it’s a thing mainly for hobby programmers and young students that don’t have a solid foundation/grasp of programming yet, which also likely makes up a big portion of programming meme communities.
It isn’t, at work we’re in the process of evaluating how useful it can be and a bunch of people received Cursor licenses to test it out.
If you’re trying to do something common it works great as long as you are concise enough. The moment you try to get it to do something obscure it starts failing miserably.
There are definitely more experienced programmers using it. I can’t find the post at the moment, but there was a recent-ish blog post citing a bunch of examples.
Personally, I don’t use AI much, but I do occasionally experiment with it (for instance, I recently gave Claude Sonnet the same live-coding interview I give candidates for my team; it…did worse than I expected, tbh). The experimenting is sufficient for me to recognize these phrases.
I think it’s a thing mainly for hobby programmers and young students that don’t have a solid foundation/grasp of programming yet, which also likely makes up a big portion of programming meme communities.
It isn’t, at work we’re in the process of evaluating how useful it can be and a bunch of people received Cursor licenses to test it out.
If you’re trying to do something common it works great as long as you are concise enough. The moment you try to get it to do something obscure it starts failing miserably.
There are definitely more experienced programmers using it. I can’t find the post at the moment, but there was a recent-ish blog post citing a bunch of examples.
Personally, I don’t use AI much, but I do occasionally experiment with it (for instance, I recently gave Claude Sonnet the same live-coding interview I give candidates for my team; it…did worse than I expected, tbh). The experimenting is sufficient for me to recognize these phrases.