Cursor is ChatGPT for coding — now anyone can make an app in minutes

[admin]

Cursor is a new AI code development tool that makes it easier than ever to turn an idea into an app, website or project — without having to write a line of code.

Cursor is ChatGPT for coding — now anyone can make an app in minutes : Read more

 

[junzhengca]

I'm a professional software engineer, and I must say, Cursor is absolutely fantastic. You still need to know programming and how things work. But overall, it is so accurate, I'm able to build a fully functional full stack application in around 4 hours, complete with CI/CD, full test coverage, and even some payment integration.

That being said, my prompt are usually quite specific, like "generate a helper class that creates a hermetic in-memory MongoDB environment for testing, complete with both bootstrap and teardown methods". But still, it takes 10 seconds to write a prompt, then I can just say: "generate a test file for it", and it generates such an accurate test file that I'm not sure I'm able to cover all these cases if I was doing it myself.

 

[Arkitekt78]

Yikes... I cringe to think about all the garbage software that is going to be built by people who have no idea what they're doing, simply because of articles like this that tell people anyone can build an app.

Yet another crutch for the incompetent and the lazy.

 

[RyanMorrison]

Yikes... I cringe to think about all the garbage software that is going to be built by people who have no idea what they're doing, simply because of articles like this that tell people anyone can build an app.

Yet another crutch for the incompetent and the lazy.

I think most users of tools like Cursor will be developers working for big companies looking to automate the boring parts of the job, including running tests and repetitive code tasks. Engineers are OpenAI, Midjourney and ElevenLabs are already using Cursor. It is basically a fork of VSCode with AI accessible by default.

 

[junzhengca]

I think most users of tools like Cursor will be developers working for big companies looking to automate the boring parts of the job, including running tests and repetitive code tasks. Engineers are OpenAI, Midjourney and ElevenLabs are already using Cursor. It is basically a fork of VSCode with AI accessible by default.

100%. It is absolutely pointless to build repetitive CRUD APIs with that 10 test cases always there. May as well let the AI do it.

It brings the fun part of software engineering back, which is actually designing the system. That part I find AI can't do it well, especially true for a distributed system, it usually get the requirements wrong, or give a ridiculous design that simply don't scale.

 

[why?]

What a dumpster fire....I could go on forever with ai coding and no code crap you couldn't code the Oregon Trail with any of these coding apps . You would die of dysentery or typhoid first.

 

[RyanMorrison]

You can code a version of the Oregon Trail with AI tools like Cursor. I've also used it to create a version of the game Taipan.