Back in the day, when I wanted to get a side project off the ground, I’d head over to Elance (now Upwork) and spend hours searching for the right person. Then, for every feature, change, or bug fix, I’d write up detailed instructions, send them off, and wait for the work to get done. It would then take days to get the feature complete. It was time-consuming and the results were often poor quality. For example one time all the API endpoints they had written were missing authentication checks. Fast forward to now, working on a project, I’ve started using Cursor AI. I can give it a feature description, no matter how messy or full of typos, and within 10 seconds it writes up clean, structured code across my entire project directory. I then spend a minute reviewing it, and maybe a minute applying the changes. 99% of the time, it’s perfectly written, bug-free, with solid error handling. Every once in a while, it even spots and fixes an unrelated bug! And all this for just $0.40 per feature.This is definitely revolutionary. I’m enjoying coding once again and find myself up till 4am writing code. Or I should say, telling the AI what to write. I think I’m now making progress at 1x Diptanu Gon Choudhury level velocity, and @diptanu is probably making 10x @diptanu progress.
Can’t wait to see what you are cooking back there.
Excited to see what you are building Ali and collaborate again :)
Ali Basiri I found myself enjoying coding again exactly because of this new evolution. Funny thing is that just like ChatGPT started a new category, Cursor started another one and now we have multiple similar products. Times are changing faster than we can digest
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2moI want to know what prompts and models you are using inside cursor to get the perfect code 99% of the time 😂 can you write a blog post? I love genai but my code works about 30% of the time which I think is the industry average for coding copilots.