Matthieu Napoli

I slept on Cursor. GitHub Copilot was a drastic improvement, but Cursor takes it so much further…

Using it frequently now since December. Pairing with PhpStorm for writing/reviewing code works better than I thought, that way I don't have to leave PhpStorm

It makes a lot of mistakes, but to me it's still worth using on ~50% of tasks I find. It just takes some practice to:
- learn how to use it better
- learn when to use it to get started, and finish the work manually
- learn when not to use it

Jan 24, 2025 at 12:13pmWeb
Show threadMatthieu NapoliJan 24, 2025
Frontend code, getting a UI started, boring tasks, anything related to a well documented library (Laravel, etc.) -> works usually great
Anything highly technical, niche, not documented, involves 3rd party systems, or complex -> usually doesn't work well
Show threadMatthieu NapoliJan 24, 2025
It seems to me like there's a lot of nuance between:
- AI will take all of our jobs
- AI is overhyped and useless
but my main takeaway is that I need to make up my own mind on these things, because we read a lot of opinions online but nothing trumps hands on experience.
And I can't deny I'm working so much faster with it.
Show threadMatthieu NapoliJan 24, 2025
Also FWIW I couldn't make anything useful with GitHub Workspaces so I gave that up 🤷 Iterating with Cursor locally also works much better in my case than doing everything in a web UI where tweaking the code is harder. AI needs a lot of hand-holding IME and doing it locally with the IDE works better.
Show threadMarcus StöhrJan 24, 2025
@mnapoli I’m using the same combination and have the same impression.