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Ask HN: Do you use cursor? What's your YoE and role?

1 pointsby babyent6 days ago
Curious. I want to understand who you are and how you use it.<p>I use cursor and co pilot occasionally but find that it hampers me about half the time on some issues, or really helps in others.<p>I have tracked my usage over the last 21 days:<p>42% of the time I gave up and did it myself. Of these, I gave 86% at least 3 attempts with the prompt. 72% of the time the reason I gave up was because it kept giving me wrong code, the next reason was because it changed the variables around or shifted my code way too much.<p>63% of the time it solved my problem. 45% of these were solved in the first attempt. I messed up how I track this because there were updates I made which were faster to do myself than to prompt.<p>Of all these, I had classified 76% as easy&#x2F;tedious tasks.

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gamificationpan6 days ago
yes, I&#x27;m a product manager, learing how to coding now.