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> ## but the code is shitty, like that of a junior developer
> Does an intern cost $20/month? Because that’s what Cursor.ai costs.
> Part of being a senior developer is making less-able coders productive, be they fleshly or algebraic. Using agents well is both a both a skill and an engineering project all its own, of prompts, indices, and (especially) tooling. LLMs only produce shitty code if you let them.
I hate pair-programming with junior devs. I hate it. I want to take the keyboard away from them and do it all myself, but I can't, or they'll never learn.
Why would I want a tool that replicates that experience without the benefit of actually helping anyone?
This stuck out to me. How long will it continue to be so cheap? I would assume some of the low cost is subsidized by VC money which will dry up eventually. Am I wrong here?
I'm not seeing any evidence yet of that trend stopping or reversing.
Maybe the current batch of startups will run out of money but the technology itself should only get cheaper.
At the end of the day this article is nothing but another piece of conjecture on hackernews.
Actually assessing the usefulness of AI would require measurements and controls. Nothing has been proven or disproven here