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Grok 4.5 14 days ago

Cursors whole moat is their harness. Other people have benched opus and GPT models through Claude code, codex, and cursor, and cursor came out on top everytime because of their harness.

That’s not the problem. The problem is buying stuff from AJSH or HUYA or BJFGL or MNQW or NBXA or any other random 4 letter “company” on Amazon for $40 when the item is crappy $2 item off aliexpress being drop shipped on Amazon.

Idle MMO 6 months ago

Built largely by one person with Laravel. Hundreds of millions of requests each month. Millions of signed up users.

You skipped all the hard parts, all the struggling, and now you have a working product without a mental model and can't level up to doing harder things on your own. Struggling IS learning. You didn't try different paths, piece different info together, and then eventually create a mental model. You just used ChatGPT to skip to the end result.

It's like enrolling for a Calc 2, cheating on all the homework to get an A, and saying "did i learn anything? No, but it solved all of these annoying homework problems for me!" Now when you have to take the 1st exam you're screwed because you didn't learn anything.

The Waymo cars drive themselves without (in person) supervision. As best as I can tell from three rides, they do it perfectly.

I drove in a Tesla with FSD 12.4 3 times and it was perfect.

it doesn’t mean anything.

I haven’t looked at the source code of a single npm package I’ve installed in the past 5 years.

“It takes a few minutes”

Dude my web dev projects have like 1,000s of dependencies. I’m not going to check the source code of every package tailwind requires.