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Depending on what you’re building, likely sometime in the near future. I’m a senior dev, I’m just using Cursor.sh and my day is essentially telling it what I need done - and the code is written much faster than I could have.

Essentially I now just architect and review. Cursor has good context, so if that gets extended to the way Devin operates I think this could go pretty far.

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I'm surprised that, as a senior, you're able to offload your work to Cursor. Maybe it's light years ahead of GPT, but I'm also a senior engineer and get almost no usable code out of AI tools without having to double check and then reimplement its suggestions. I use them to generate ideas for algorithms mainly, and would not (could not) just copy-paste its solution into my/our codebase. It must depend on what you're building.

Being senior can mean completely different things depending on the job. I believe a senior whose work can be offloaded to Cursor at the extent OP claims may be the kind of senior who doesn't really need to deal with that much complexity in the first place.

I think it’s highly dependant on the language and framework and whether they lend themselves well to the way Cursor accepts context.

I'm only using ChatGPT 4 and cannot reproduce your good results. I definitely get valuable inputs from it, but also definitely (almost) nothing usable in that form. Might be I'm still bad at prompting, but if I request the code to do say 5 things (like a complex SQL) it will always forget at least one or the other of the points. Or suggest useless things. Or reformat instead of rewrite. So again: helpful, increasing my productivity, but very very very far from being trusted with anything real. Edit: I don't agree with others saying it doesn't help seniors: it does help, because I can recognize its idea and build quicker on it. If I was a junior I'd navigate blindly (sometimes okay too).

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