I had been too much of a proud programmer last year- mostly just using AI for simple tab completions and maybe ChatGPT to research and understand some concepts, otherwise, I was doing all of coding myself.
For the last several weeks, as the holiday season approached, work getting much busier, and so on I found myself needing to refactor some tooling for my company, creating new ones, etc and what I lacked the most was TIME.
I bit the bullet and installed Cursor. I watched some YT videos, read docs, and got to work.
I am completely blown away at the speed I've been able to work, and the robustness of the solutions I end up creating with AI. Specifically Opus 4.5 at the time of writing. I've done more in the past few weeks than I've done most of this year with Cursor integrated into my coding projects.
I'm curious. I respect a lot of you guys here in the community. You're all seasoned devs and I'd like to know some things- have you been using AI in their workflows? What is the workflow you're using? Why? Claude Code vs Cursor- thoughts? Do you give it full reign in your projects or walk it step-by-step? If you hadn't been using it- why not?
I just wanted hear everyone's thoughts on this subject. May be some nuggets we can all take out of it. Historically, LLMs SUCKED for writing Nim. Today? Not too bad at all. It's too good to ignore it now and the benefits seem to only be growing IMO.