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Is Cursor A Net Negative? | Prime Reacts

2025-06-14 Science & Technology
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Top Comments (10)

@KelvinShadewing 2025-06-14

Is there nothing besides AI to talk about anymore?

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@isodoublet 2025-06-14

"You're prompting it wrong!!" -- Steve Jobs, 2009

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@dgo4490 2025-06-14

It doesn't t have to make money, just move money around.

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@gsgregory2022 2025-06-14

At the 16:50ish mark. I think you missed the point. Yes an llm will just output an answer, however the point is that cursor a tool built on top of ai, doesn't do much more than implement the answer from the llm.

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@kavajawa 2025-06-14

I wonder how many people voting for the skill issue wrote a single program more advanced than Fiz-Buz…

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@Dom-zy1qy 2025-06-14

Net negative productivity happens when you use "Agent" mode and Sonnet's logits (the voices in its head) tell it to refactor the entire codebase, implement random design patterns, rename classes, methods, and update comments when you ask it to make a minor change to one file.

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@nicholas6497 2025-06-14

What I took away from this video is I will now call "bidirectional "skibidirectional"

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@benjaminkemper5876 2025-06-15

I found this channel right when it went from a channel about programming and stuff to a channel dedicated to AI.

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@mrmimeisfunny 2025-06-14

As someone who delved into the bidi text rabbit hole hearing "Skibidi Isolate" just broke me

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@shifkey 2025-06-18

This is the best productivity streaming content I've ever seen. Fuckin subbed. Will look for you on twitch.

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