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How to use AI for coding the right way

Jason Leow ~ plugins.carrd.co on September 08, 2024

Devs: "Yeah Cursor/ChatGPT/AI is great and all, but you still need to know what you want, or know how to check for hallucinations. A complete begin...
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TheNickest

These are valuable hints, especially because I just entered the Cursor world. Just as a kind feedback: To improve the writing and therefore the reading experience of your posts you could also consider using the same AI tools.

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Jason Leow ~ plugins.carrd.co

Nope, not for my writing. But thanks

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Chandra Panta Chhetri

"having a super knowledgeable programming intern" is a great way to sum of AI.

You mentioned Claude & Cursor. What are your thoughts on Copilot & Chatgpt. Any reason you are using those instead of Copilot/ChatGPT? Or just preference?

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Jason Leow ~ plugins.carrd.co

From personal experience, Cursor + Claude Sonnet gives better output than Copilot or ChatGPT

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selfboot

Can't agree more, I use it that way. As a rookie who doesn't know how to be on the front end, I wrote a series of tools with Claude3.5 and put them in AI Gallery. I wrote an article on how to visualize a binary search tree

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TheHighSecond

Systems prompts seems to be the key. Haven't tried it myself yet. I should try soon and report back.

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Jason Leow ~ plugins.carrd.co

Nice, yes let me know !

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Vlad

Great tips jason. thanks for sharing.

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Terry Gilligan

Really nice read, helpful too. Thanks for taking the time to pass on your experience. Have a great time.

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Senthilnathan Subramanian

Wowww. Wowww. Jason, This is amazing. I have heard about Cursor recently. But, never tried. Thank You So Much for sharing your experience. God Bless.

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Kenny R.

I'd like to see some code base created this way maybe on github, if anyone can provide a pointer

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Wrends • Edited

superpower bs!

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Jason Leow ~ plugins.carrd.co • Edited

If you have anything constructive to add, will be all ears. Otherwise, your reply's just as bs