Vibe coding Lifelog
jasonleow • 24 Feb 2025 •
I just subscribed to Cursor, to use Agent mode. The rationale is - if I’m only going to get 1h of indie hacking done per day, and only weekend mornings, I better use whatever tools is available out there to get the job done fast.
And part of the speed is doing vibe coding – giving the right prompts and letting AI do all the work, just checking at critical junctures. As an experiment I vibe coded the new tag pages.
And it worked!
I didn’t really check the code, only that it worked how I wanted it. If there’s errors I pasted it into the chat input. Made sure I gave it the right prompt to start off.
It’s amazing what Agent mode can do in Cursor, with the right starting point, like:
Please make a feed of posts tagged with a particular tag. Take reference to a similar posts feed on @search page.
The task would have usually taken me a 2-3 weekends rawdogging code, would take me like a full weekend Saturday and Sunday morning on normal Cursor chat mode, or max two weekends. Now on Agent mode, it takes me just a Saturday morning!
That’s why I’m shipping a lot more features now for Lifelog, even though I only do it on weekends.
Excited for what’s to come… especially for my new projects!
What a wild wild future…
Comments
Have you tried this prompt? “Make it better.” or “Make it cooler.”
I read an interesting article recently on AI Coding: https://blog.shivs.me/im-glad-ai-didnt-exist-when-i-learned-to-code
And everybody everywhere seems to be talking about Cursor. Maybe I should give it a try.
@therealbrandonwilson Yes, that’s the most important thing!
@Winkletter Heh I do “make it cooler” often but hit and miss
@phaidenbauer Yeah there’s a general sentiment that using AI dulls your coding skills. I think it’s how one uses it. If used lazily, then yeah. My experience had been otherwise, tbh. My learning had 10x. I asked AI to explain a method I don’t know, explain line by line so I understand my code, i brainstorm solutions with it… And yes, all that with Cursor! Cursor + Claude Sonnet 3.7 is coding superpowers!
@jasonleow It definitely depends on how you use it. I’m using the JetBrains Integrated in WebStorm daily. It also really increased my skills for SQL queries in DataGrip 🙈.
I don’t understand much of this, but I gather you are using AI to get more done in less time, so I’m all for it!