Imo what makes Cursor great is using it as an additional tool vs a replacement - it’s rare you will one shot anything, that you can efficiently have an agent write all of the code for you

Things like typeahead or using the agent to do boilerplate generations is key

Typing manually is layer 1 and boilerplate generation is the prime subject to building additional layers.

Code generation tools are just a convenience layer to help when we’re constrained on resources like time, brain power etc.

Code generation can be used to automate testing boilerplate and test case transcription.

The test cases themselves could ideally be handwritten or designed to keep the context in the operators’ flow states.

https://x.com/zeeg/status/1976026560374485419?s=46

I really like terry tao’s take on red team vs blue team and how llms can be used effectively as red team agents.

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