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>>EGreg+(OP)
There's a small but seemingly tireless brigade of "you're not actually moving faster, you're just fooling yourself" pundits on this site that feel compelled to chime in every time someone mentions that they get any benefit from AI coding tools. I'm just not going to engage with them anymore.

That said... I jumped to a few random moments in your video and had an "oh my god" reaction because you really were not kidding when you said that you were pasting code.

I'm pretty much begging you to install and use Cursor. Whatever boost you're getting from your current workflow, you will see triple through use of their Agent/Plan/Debug modes, especially when using Opus 4.5. I promise you: it's a before electricity vs after electricity scenario. I'm actually excited for you.

A lot of folks will tell you to use Claude Code. I personally find that it doesn't make sense for the sorts of projects I work on; I would 100% start with Cursor either way.

>>petefo+4Uk
Can you actually provide any proof, even top-line stats from GitHub or other software forges that show the productivity boost you’re claiming?

It’s not up to the skeptics to prove this tech doesn’t work, it’s up to the proponents to show it does and does so with a similar effect size as cigarettes cause lung cancer.

There are a tremendous amount of LLM productivity stans on HN but the plural of anecdote is not data.

Certainly these tools are useful, but the extent to which they are useful today is not nearly as open and shut as you and others would claim. I’d say that these tools make me 5% more productive on a code base I know well.

I’m totally open to opposing evidence that isn’t just anecdote

>>Sirens+Kbl
I think it’s pretty obvious that is the OP automates this manual part of their workflow that it will improve their iteration speed. The thread root is just saying stop copy and pasting and use the built in tooling to communicate with the LLM apis

>>ghthor+8el
They aren’t responding to thread roots extended comment, just the first part about the tone and rhetoric of AI proponents. Your comment isnt really a response to anything in their comment.