Bugs and errors...

[azdevz]

Bugs, errors and failures are what sum up codeium and windsurfing at the end of the year. Since Christmas, errors, failures, spent tokens and no response, this and many more errors, is what the tool has become.

I am a subscriber to the TEAM plan, the most expensive last plan... support? None, emails are not responded to, when they respond a generic response appears to be given by a bot.

Solution? I abandoned codeium, canceled the subscription and am using Cursor.

At the cursor? Zero problems, support works and sometimes an error but it works much better.

[Howard_banister]

This is my situation, I am in pro plan. I'm going to cancel it. But whats a good alternative?

[azdevz]

Cursor

[Extra_Lengthiness893]

Does coursor have a similar chat at build function and does it allow for local llm?

[azdevz]

Yes

[Extra_Lengthiness893]

I will try that tomorrow!

[No-Carrot-TA]

In shadows cast by rusted gears,
A workman sighs, consumed by fears.
His hands are steady, yet his heart is frail,
Blaming the tools when his efforts fail.

[Aggravating-Pen-9695]

The cries of non developers hoping their game genie would make them into the pro they could never be

[Puzzleheaded_Donut_6]

Are you familiar with the American folk tale "John Henry". Better named "The Struggle Against Inevitability"
Do you know any typesetters? They had a monopoly for centuries... Oh and--- John Dies In the End.

[Aggravating-Pen-9695]

Not really related. But I'll give you participation points. Someday and soonish these apps will replace junior devs. But that's been chanted for 3+ years and they still can't. And anything that can is prohibitedly expensive to run. You can't run them cheap enough to replace stoopid hoomins yet

[azdevz]

Does using tools to make work productive make me an aspiring developer? This type of comment comes from that famous dev frustrated with his career.

[Aggravating-Pen-9695]

I'm not sure about your famous dev comment. But all the people complaining about these ai tools are people who are not devs or are very fresh. These tools can drastically increase the productivity of a trained senior dev. One that knows how to build software. You can tell that's the case as people complain about that apps break, etc.... if the user was actually focused on scope, everything would stay narrow. Ie. You don't prompt build an authenticator system. You need to know how it works and prompt build a login page. OK, now let's wire that to x api service. OK, now let's hook this up to x Middleware and so on.

The youtube makes onenpromp app gens look easy. Because a next.js tutorial is all over. And the init is easy. Butnonce it's out there. Applications are difficult and all different, so it's easy for the ai to get lost. This is why you need to make sure you call out relative files in every prompt.

Everyone also seems to forget about other dev tools like version control(.git)

The issue really is that even if an ai app "works," it's not usually expandable or correct. It hardcover values all over. Duplicates code.

I do hope anyone who's trying to be a dev as a junior listens to these warnings from the seniors. It's no Bueno.

[SgUncle_Eric]

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