zackproser (u/zackproser)

zackproser commented on OpenAI Codex hands-on review zackproser.com/blog/opena... · Posted by u/fragmede

> Codex will support me and others in performing our work effectively away from our desks.

This feels so hopelessly optimistic to me, because "effectively away from our desks" for most people will mean "in the unemployment line"

zackproser · 4 months ago

Maybe, maybe that's FUD...I can't predict the future.

zackproser commented on OpenAI Codex hands-on review zackproser.com/blog/opena... · Posted by u/fragmede

maxwellg · 4 months ago

Being able to make quick changes across a ton of repos sounds awesome. I help maintain a ton of example apps, and doing things like updating a README to conform to a new format, or changing a link, gets pretty tedious when there are 20 different places to do it. If I could delegate all that busywork to Codex and smash the merge button later I would be happy.

zackproser · 4 months ago

Me too :)

I feel it will get there in short order..but for the time being I feel that we'll be doing some combination of scattershot smaller & maintenance tasks across Codex while continuing to build and do serious refactoring in an IDE...

zackproser commented on OpenAI O3-Mini openai.com/index/openai-o... · Posted by u/johnneville

mvkel · 7 months ago

I've been using cursor since it launched, sticking almost exclusively to claude-3.5-sonnet because it is incredibly consistent, and rarely loses the plot.

As subsequent models have been released, most of which claim to be better at coding, I've switched cursor to it to give them a try.

o1, o1-pro, deepseek-r1, and the now o3-mini. All of these models suffer from the exact same "adhd." As an example, in a NextJS app, if I do a composer prompt like "on page.tsx [15 LOC], using shadcn components wherever possible, update this page to have a better visual hierarchy."

sonnet nails it almost perfectly every time, but suffers from some date cutoff issues like thinking that shadcn-ui@latest is the repo name.

Every single other model, doesn't matter which, does the following: it starts writing (from scratch), radix-ui components. I will interrupt it and say "DO NOT use radix-ui, use shadcn!" -- it will respond with "ok!" then begin writing its own components from scratch, again not using shadcn.

This is still problematic with o3-mini.

I can't believe it's the models. It must be the instruction-set that cursor is giving it behind the scenes, right? No amount of .cursorrules, or other instruction, seems to get cursor "locked in" the way sonnet just seems to be naturally.

It sucks being stuck on the (now ancient) sonnet, but inexplicably, it remains the only viable coding option for me.

Has anyone found a workaround?

zackproser · 7 months ago

Not trying to be snarky, but the example prompt you provided is about 1/15th the length and detail of prompts I usually send when working with Cursor.

I tend to exhaustively detail what I want, including package names and versions because I've been to that movie before...

zackproser commented on I trusted an LLM, now I'm on day 4 of an afternoon project nemo.foo/blog/day-4-of-an... · Posted by u/nemofoo

potsandpans · 7 months ago

Counterexample: Ive been able to complete more side projects in the last month leveraging llms than i have ever in my life. One of which I believe to have potential as a viable product, and another which involved complicated rust `no_std` and linker setup for compiling rust code onto bare metal RISCV from scratch.

I think the key to being successful here is to realize that you're still at the wheel as an engineer. The llm is there to rapidly synthesize the universe of information.

You still need to 1) have solid fundamentals in order to have an intuition against that synthesis, and 2) be experienced enough to translate that synthesis into actionable outcomes.

If youre lacking in either, youre at the same whims of copypasta that have always existed.

zackproser · 7 months ago

This

zackproser commented on Show HN: Instantly visualize any codebase as an interactive diagram gitdiagram.com/... · Posted by u/ahmedkhaleel

zackproser · 8 months ago

Ah nicely done! I was just about to build this

zackproser commented on My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback armaansahni.com/game/... · Posted by u/veesahni

zackproser · 9 months ago

Great game

zackproser commented on Ask HN: Best AI Code Assistant? · Posted by u/register

padolsey · a year ago

I was in in the `concat->copy->[Claude/OAI]->paste` workflow until a few weeks ago. Cursor is a revelation. Nowadays I only very rarely pump things wholesale into Claude[dot]ai when I'm dealing with a massive cross-codebase issue. Otherwise Cursor is my salve.

zackproser · a year ago

Had the same experience. Cursor ux and also Zed are designed to make copy pasta'ing back and forth obsolete. It's certainly more comfortable to iterate within the IDE, for me.

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zackproser · a year ago

Very cool. Thanks for sharing