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Ritewut 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B

Most people are not good at their jobs and IDEs like Cursor let bad SWEs feel more productive because they are committing more code.

esalman 3 months ago [–]

Indeed, according to Cursor leaderboard there were folks committing 200k-300k lines of code every month. And here I am intentionally slowing myself down manually approving every AI generated code change and terminal command.

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