Its a nice productivity and capability boost that feels on the same magnitude as, for example, React. The "dream" of it being able to just take tickets and agentically get a PR up for review is possible for ~5% of tickets. That goes up to ~10% if your organization has no standards at all, including even a self-serving standard like "at least make sure the repository remains useful to future AI usage".
My organization would still hire as many software engineers as we could afford.
- Stack Overflow has to be actually dead at this point. There's no reason to go there, or even Google, anymore.
- Using it for exploratory high level research and summarization into unfamiliar repos is pretty nice.
- Very rarely does AI write code that I feel would last a year without needing to be rewritten. That makes it good for things like knocking out a quick script or updating a button color.
- None of them actually follow instructions e.g. in Cursor rules. Its a serious problem. It doesn't matter how many times or where I tell it "one component per file, one component per file", all caps, threaten its children, offer it a cookie, it just does whatever it wants.
My organization would still hire as many software engineers as we could afford.
- Stack Overflow has to be actually dead at this point. There's no reason to go there, or even Google, anymore.
- Using it for exploratory high level research and summarization into unfamiliar repos is pretty nice.
- Very rarely does AI write code that I feel would last a year without needing to be rewritten. That makes it good for things like knocking out a quick script or updating a button color.
- None of them actually follow instructions e.g. in Cursor rules. Its a serious problem. It doesn't matter how many times or where I tell it "one component per file, one component per file", all caps, threaten its children, offer it a cookie, it just does whatever it wants.