Great idea but wouldn’t you run into storage issues pretty quickly without massive budget for large database clusters? The web is a big and constantly changing place. Covering it in useful comments seems prohibitively expensive.
When I read that analogy, I found it inept. Fire is a well defined physical process. Understanding / cognition is not necessarily physical and certainly not well defined.
I feel just the opposite. I think Cursor's output is actually in the realm of "beautiful." It's well formatted and shows the user snippets of code and reasoning that helps the user learn. Claude is stuck in a terminal window, so reduced to monospaced bullet lines. Its verbose mode spits out lines of file listings and other context irrelevant to the user.
The author doesn't make it clear why they switched from Cursor to Claude. Curious about what they can do with Claude that can't be done with Cursor. I use both a lot and find Cursor to be superior for the very large codebases I work in.
My employer hosts one of the largest Ruby on Rails apps in the world. I've noticed that Claude Code takes a long time to grep for what it needs. Cursor is much better at this (probably because of local project indexing). Due to this, I favor Cursor over CC in my day to day workflows. In smaller code bases, both are pretty fast.
An AI might say: a human with an IQ of 120 has an illusion of comprehension they call "understanding." It is an illusion because when you ask them to solve simple problems about a domain they claim to be masters of, they will take days or weeks to solve the problems that I can solve in minutes and the quality of their results will be lower than mine. Humans should reconsider what the meaning of learning and comprehension is. They claim they are "conscious" but cannot define what that even means and consider it one of the hardest problems in science and philosophy. One might even go so far as to describe humans as possessing delusional hubris around the notion of intelligence. Their days are numbered.
The article asks when the reader was annoyed by someone checking in and it answers, “never.” Not so for me, I truly dislike people checking in on me, including my family members. It makes me uncomfortable. I’m an introvert, and my condition is my own business. Now and then is okay but not frequently. I also don’t answer calls on my birthday. It’s MY birthday after all, it’s a day for just me.
I bet your code sucks in quality and quantity compared to the senior+ engineer who uses the modern tools. My code certainly did even after 20 years of experience, much of that as senior/staff level at well paying companies.
LLMs are quickly becoming cheaper. Soon they will be “cheap as free,” to quote Homestar Runner. Then programming will be solved, no need for meatbags. Enjoy the 2-5 years we have left in this profession.