It took me a while to make the switch from copy pasting in a chat to Cursor, but I do see an improvement in my productivity in a couple of ways. For context, this is doing front-end development and knowing what I'm doing. The benefits aren't there if I'm using a technology/library I'm not familiar with.
For the most part, I just type code the same way I use to but I get:
- an auto-complete on steroids
- the tab feature reminding me of impacted code I forgot to update after making a change elsewhere (big one as I easily get distracted).
I very rarely use the chat/composer. Usually I'm faster by going through files manually and making changes myself helped by the features mentioned above.
For the most part, I just type code the same way I use to but I get:
- an auto-complete on steroids
- the tab feature reminding me of impacted code I forgot to update after making a change elsewhere (big one as I easily get distracted).
I very rarely use the chat/composer. Usually I'm faster by going through files manually and making changes myself helped by the features mentioned above.