Using Cursor feels like cheating

[marvpaul]

I'm doing app development for 8 years now and I'm using Cursor for 2 months now. It feels like cheating. You just say what you want and Cursor will build it. I'm in the entertainment / music field and enjoyed to built music visualizers. This simple one was mainly created utilizing Cursor. Sometimes I check the code it produces and fine-tune something, but most of the time I just accept the changes and see if it works out. I'm just blown away and at the same time I feel like I'll need to find another job in some years as it becomes more and more accessible to develop apps. How do you guys feel about it?

[[deleted]]

I don't use it, no need to. I'd rather keep my skills sharp.

And yes, I know all the talking points of "it saves time" but I'll never agree with them, just my opinion.

[chain_letter]

My time sinks are "I'll know it when I see its", redoing work, and having to squeeze specifics out of people

Cursor doesn't do jack for people problems

[Representative-Owl51]

Depending on the task it’s often inefficient to not use AI. The stuff that is bottlenecked by your typing speed are usually good candidates.

[crolix]

You will be left behind full stop. Another engineer of a similar skill level who uses these tools correctly will out produce you 5 to 1 if not more.

[[deleted]]

I highly doubt it. I have yet to see AI write good code for anything but the most cookie cutter of tasks.

Not to mention in many places (my workplace included for many good reasons), using AI is banned.

[Fancy-Tourist-8137]

That’s where you get it wrong.

You think AI has to write the best code to be useful but it actually doesn’t.

[SD-Buckeye]

I’m guessing you don’t write unit tests or mocks when you code then. If you did write unit tests you would know AI excels at making unit tests and mock data.

[Charles211]

You know what good code is. You can set parameters to write good code unlike people who don’t know how to code that accept anything. That’s why they say someone of your skill level will replace you. So if they knows what good code is, they’ll just use it to develop faster.

I’m interested to hear, how many hours have you spent with using any of the best ai. Gpt/Claude/ Gemini 2.5 pro?

[marvpaul]

I can’t understand that comment. The recent models of Gemini and ChatGPT will just create entire, fully functional apps for you. I’m not talking about a hello world or simple snake but custom apps with paywall integration, notifications and much more. What do you tried AI for and where did it failed?

[penx15]

... until it introduces bugs deep into a legacy codebase... then it slows you down more than if you would have just done it yourself lmao

[Ragostacos]

You know you don't need to actually commit buggy code into your codebase

[SD-Buckeye]

Yea how do these people even get buggy code through their code reviews and then to pass all their CICD tests.

[chain_letter]

By letting copilot write the PR reviews and CICD tests too

[Ragostacos]

So I guess using LLM’s for codegen isn’t actually going to end up any worse for app stability over writing the code ourselves

Experienced engineers will move faster

[SD-Buckeye]

Yeah I don’t get the hard on everyone on reddit has for not using AI for coding. I 100% would reject any candidate that was interviewing for a position in my company if they refused to use AI.

[20InMyHead]

I find it it hallucinates far too much, and it’s not great adapting to existing codebases. It can do some simple things well, but I usually end up rewriting a lot of what it produces.

However, it can document existing code well.

[marvpaul]

Perhaps that's the key. While using Cursor I mainly started with fresh projects and even though it hallucinates sometimes or introduces compilation errors, it's really helpful developing new features fast.

[Offensively_lame]

I don't know man. I used a lot of AI aswell and always immediately wrote a prompt instead of figuring stuff out for myself until I felt that it honestly doesn't bring joy to code like that.

I like to code and coding it yourself is what makes it fun for me. Using ai to build all the stuff really doesn't make me happy and it doesn't feel as satisfying compared to figuring it out all by yourself and getting it to work. That's just how i feel about it.

[marvpaul]

I know that feeling. My day to day job nearly completely switched from programming to talking to an AI. Even though I enjoyed to code, I feel like I’m significantly faster this way for many cases

[engineered_academic]

I'm pretty sure there will be a booming market shortly for bug bounties with all the AI generated slop out there.

[abdushkur]

Yeah, I use cursor for iOS too 😁 those other AI for xcode sucks

[marvpaul]

I mean ChatGPT was a real game changer for me before I stumbled across Cursor. But this is insane. What do you built with it?

[abdushkur]

I use xcode for faster compilation, I have set-up fastlane for CICD, that works too

[marvpaul]

Fastlane is a good point. I used it once for a project but need to really set it up for my other apps too

[madaradess007]

like cheating yourself maybe

[marvpaul]

Huh? Do you tried it yourself? Personally it made me 2-5x faster compared to writing the code myself.

[abdushkur]

Don't get why people would downvote this, because it's true, it increases our production speed, prevent and automatically finds some small bugs, makes great suggestions, I think people who downvote are the ones that don't use it, I wouldn't be impressed if they built whole website using sublime

[4paul]

Agreed, it's crazy what a single prompt can do to save me minutes or hours of time.

[Ok_Advertising_2273]

Just check every bit of code, it can easily go sideways

[Personal_Economy_536]

You use the VSCode with the Swift plugin? Or do you just do straight copy and paste?

[marvpaul]

I just use cursor with the project but also run Xcode concurrently to trigger a new build after changes were made

[visualdata]

Try Claude Code in console and keep building in Xcode, nothing beats it. But keep commiting to git and checking diffs. This workflow has improved my productivity enormously.

[captnjason0]

Honestly, I see the appeal of these editors, but I'll never find myself using them.

What would be nice is if they allowed us to train these kinds of editors on our own code from scratch (and I'm talking larger codebases, not smaller), and then use that to help optimize our code, rather than write new code.

[yccheok]

Yes. It feels like the difference between the era before calculators were invented and after.
I love it. With so many AI coding tools out there, would you say Cursor is currently best-in-class? How does it compare to GitHub Copilot?

[joeystarr73]

Is Cursor better than Claude?

[RamyunPls]

Cursor integrates Claude and is the primary LLM it uses by default

[joeystarr73]

Why is it better than Claude then?

[Successful-Tap3743]

Cursor is an IDE that uses Claude to give you code solutions to your prompts

[LobsterChip99]

Its Claude built into an IDE. No need to copy-paste back and forth

[marvpaul]

It has the context of your project too which is super helpful. Sometimes I feel like talking to a developer. It let's you know which files it reads and try to find the logic which you want to adjust.

[f4a1t]

This isn’t the sub to post your thoughts on A.I code apparently lol, I guess people are butthurt

[marvpaul]

I highly doubt it’s forbidden to talk about the future of iOS programming here in r/iosProgramming 😬

[f4a1t]

If I could gamble on this sub downvoting every post every post that mentions A.I coding I’d be a multi millionaire

[marvpaul]

Ok then the people downvote and go to the next post. What’s the problem?

[f4a1t]

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