Cursor's Composer 2 model is performing much worse for me than Composer 1 :( I feel like Composer 1 really hit a sweet spot for me between speed and quality.
For me the bottlenecks for coding with AI are:
- understanding all the code that the model wrote
- testing changes
Composer 1 really helped with the first because it could blast out small amounts of code that I could quickly review without my brain getting bored and context switching to something else. I feel like I'm an outlier in that I'm trying to stay heavily involved in the dev flow rather than having a multiple agents work on long tasks and then coming back in cold to review their work. Is anyone else using smaller quicker models in this way?
mplorentz / Matt Lorentz
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