I work at one of those fancy AI startups as a software engineer. I was one of the earliest adopters of Cursor, the AI IDE. I've also interviewed for them - well actually they sent me the at-home exercise but i never started it. I was away for my summer vacations. I know, stupid choice.
Anyway, it's been a while since I started using Cursor and I now feel like it does a great job developing entire features for my team software, but also, occasionally, to ship changes to the main platform we maintain (which is quite big and complex).
While I'm able to review the code and understand 80% of what's happening, where it can be done better, I'm also conscious that I would not be able to come up with the patterns he proposes sometimes.
It feels like I'm trusting the machine. Then I log off for the day and feel like I've not accomplished much even if, objectively, I did.
Is this the era of the 10x engineer? Should we start embracing this new way of working to the point that we enlarge our daily to-dos by 5-10x and just review them? What are pro and cons of this approach? Because it starts to feel realistic.
gabrycina•2mo ago
Anyway, it's been a while since I started using Cursor and I now feel like it does a great job developing entire features for my team software, but also, occasionally, to ship changes to the main platform we maintain (which is quite big and complex).
While I'm able to review the code and understand 80% of what's happening, where it can be done better, I'm also conscious that I would not be able to come up with the patterns he proposes sometimes.
It feels like I'm trusting the machine. Then I log off for the day and feel like I've not accomplished much even if, objectively, I did.
Is this the era of the 10x engineer? Should we start embracing this new way of working to the point that we enlarge our daily to-dos by 5-10x and just review them? What are pro and cons of this approach? Because it starts to feel realistic.