Developer-Tools

Quick disclaimer: I’ve never been a professional developer, so take everything here with a grain of salt. I’ve been noticing a pattern. I see people doing incredible things with the current generation of agentic coding tools on X/Twitter, and I’m doing things I have no business being able to achieve with my level of skill. But I started wondering — is this the norm? Turns out it isn’t. Two conversations that stuck with me I recently caught up with a mate who’s a real software engineer. I started talking about my demos, my side hustles, what I’ve been doing with Clawdia. He gave me a wry smile that said, “Yeah, but that’s toy code. You’re not working on production code.” The discussion went on for a bit, then I asked him about his experience. He’s been using GitHub Copilot, and it’s let him do things probably two or three times faster for code refactoring. Based on what I experience and read, that seems really low. I didn’t push back. I was thinking about it the whole drive home though. ...

Discover seamless code exploration—and what to expect—when using Jupyter workflows inside Cursor When I first stumbled upon Jupyter Notebook support in Cursor, it was hard to get genuinely excited—my early attempts were honestly pretty clunky. Editing .ipynb files felt unreliable, and the workflow didn’t quite “click” the way a true notebook should. I kept bouncing between clumsy interfaces, and it didn’t feel worth the hassle. But recently, something changed. I’m not sure exactly when the update landed, but suddenly, working in notebooks inside Cursor is not just possible, but actually a pleasure. ...