Have been using #Cursor now for a couple of weeks as an AI-supported code editor.
I was initially quite reluctant to adopt any #AI #coding assistant, but I really have to say that it makes me more efficient. Measurably.
Yes, it does mistakes and it introduces subtle issues sometimes. On the other hand, it automates some of the boring stuff in writing code surprisingly well.
All in all, I agree that it's just a form of autocomplete. Used with care it can be pretty useful though.
An #AI Customer Service #Chatbot Made Up a Company Policy—and Created a Mess
When an AI model for code-editing company #Cursor #hallucinated a new rule, users revolted.
https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-ai-hallucination-policy-customer-service/
Company apologizes after AI support agent invents policy that causes user uproar - On Monday, a developer using the popular AI-powered code editor Cursor not... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/cursor-ai-support-bot-invents-fake-policy-and-triggers-user-uproar/ #aidevelopmenttools #machinelearning #aiprogramming #hackernews #chatbot #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz #cursor #reddit #ai
Am I missing something? #Cursor (the AI editor) only provides AppImage official builds, and the rpm that you might be able to find is three versions too old to actually work. Please someone tell me there's a COPR or Flatpak build of 0.48 somewhere? Thanks!
Wenn die KI Nein sagt: Cursor-Tool rät User, lieber selbst programmieren zu lernen - t3n – digital pioneers
https://t3n.de/news/wenn-die-ki-nein-sagt-tool-1679616/ #KI #Cursor #Arbeitsverweigerung #Streik
Hackaday Links: March 16, 2025 - “The brickings will continue until the printer sales improve!” This whole printer-... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/16/hackaday-links-march-16-2025/ #hackadaycolumns #hackadaylinks #learntocode #conviction #engineroom #container #logicbomb #firmware #printer #slider #cursor #brick #crime #toner #ship #llm #hp
We've reached the stage where the code we've written to help us write more code has refused to write more code. 
#ai #artificialintelligence #chatgpt #openai #claude #perplexity #llm #llms #cursor
AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead - On Saturday, a developer using Cursor AI for a racing game project hit an ... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/ai-coding-assistant-refuses-to-write-code-tells-user-to-learn-programming-instead/ #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #aipaternalism #stackoverflow #programming #airefusals #aicoding #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz #cursor #github #tech #ai
#Cursor #IDE doesn't stop to amaze me. I had an old web scraper in #Python. It stopped working because the scraped website changed. I simply prompted that "it no longer finds the right data". No other details. It:
1. Run a few `curl` commands to analyze how the HTML looks now (!)
2. Adjusted CSS selectors (!!)
3. Run the program to figure out if it now works (it did!!!)
4. But Cursor didn't know that, so it added some print statements for himself, re-run and verify the output (!!!!)
#AI #DevEx
Sharing some cursors. I modified the Hackneyed cursors to be high contrast and disable the animation, available as monochrome or multicolour. They use the Windows 10 and 11 default cursor colours. You can also pick any colours you want if you build from source (Codeberg).
You can download directly from my website or OpenDesktop.org.
https://futurehorizondesign.net.au/portfolio/hackneyedhighcontraststaticcursors.html
@dougmerritt
Thanks and thanks for your advice on cursors in NUD. I had been imagining doing this to find cursors:
CL-USER> '(#:foo #:bar #:cursor #:baz)
(#:FOO #:BAR #:CURSOR #:BAZ)
CL-USER> (find 'cursor * :key 'symbol-name :Test 'string=)
#CURSOR
perhaps with multiple uninterned cursors, which is why I had the funny cursor symbols actually swapping their way through conses but then I realised I can just do
@kentpitman @ksaj @TheGibson @mdhughes @baruchel @nosrednayduj @ratxue @hairylarry
Headline: Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: ‘We don’t care about professional coders anymore’
An excerpt:
«In essence, Replit’s latest customer base is a new breed of coder: The ones who don’t know the first thing about code.
“We don’t care about professional coders anymore,” Masad said.
[...]
Essentially, a very basic understanding of the way software works enables people to take advantage of AI tools that are growing ever more capable.
Masad says it really amounts to a return to the roots of the way computers were supposed to work. Before Windows, people would type in complex, arcane prompts into MS DOS. But only a small percentage of the population was going to adopt a technology that required learning an entirely new language.
DOS gave way to Windows, and mouse-clicking replaced prompts. AI allows computers to be prompted with natural language, instead of arcane commands. “I think we’re going to see this era of Windows and mice and desktops as totally cringe.”»
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Apparently, Replit makes Replit Agent that can build apps using natural language input? Idk, haven't tried it, happy #cursor user.
I look forward to getting paid to clean up the messes built by AI #agents .
#HackerNews discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42728717
GitHub today: "Now in GitHub Copilot, you can choose Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet to perform a variety of tasks—like refactoring code. 
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This is funny, it's exactly what Cursor does.
Cursor feels amazing. Emphasis on "AI-assisted".
hey everyone, finally launching my side project i built using #cursor. check it out here:
http://localhost:3000
> #Cursor is part #development environment, part #AI #chatbot and unlike tools like #GitHub #Copilot it can more or less do all of the work for you, transforming a simple idea into functional #code in minutes.
https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/cursor-is-chatgpt-for-coding-now-anyone-can-make-an-app-in-minutes
Hi, There this my Fiverr account
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if you want custom cursor icons
and Here my Ko-Fi account
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