threeseed 4 days ago

I use Scala which has arguably the best compiler/type system with Cursor.

There is no world in which a compiler or tooling will save you from the absolute mayhem it can do. I’ve had it routinely try to re-implement third party libraries, modify code unrelated to what it was asked, quietly override functions etc.

It’s like a developer who is on LSD.

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Tainnor 4 days ago

I don't know Scala. I asked cursor to create a tutorial for me to learn Scala. It created two files for me, Basic.scala and Advanced.scala. The second one didn't compile and no matter how often I tried to paste the error logs into the chat, it couldn't fix the actual error and just made up something different.

Terr_ 4 days ago

Yeah, everyone wanted a thinking machine, but the best we can do right now is a dreaming machine... And dreams don't have to make sense.

larodi 4 days ago

Developer on LSD is likely to hallucinate less in terms of how weird the LLM hallucinations are sometimes. Besides I know people, not myself, who fare very well on LSD and particularly when micro dosing Adderal style

miningape 3 days ago

Mushrooms too! I find they get me into a flow state much better than acid (when microdosing).

jmaker 4 days ago

Granted the Scala language is much more complex than Go. To produce something useful it must be capable of an equivalent of parsing the AST.