yep... we are living in a time that the role of the developer is changing quickly.
Boris (Cherny) wrote about it and the TL;DR:
1. Prototyper: comes up with brand new ideas; churns out many ideas, most of which don't ship
2. Builder: quickly turns a prototype/idea into production-grade product/infra
3. Sweeper: cleans up the UI, simplifies the code and system, unships, optimizes performance
4. Grower: takes a product that has been built and iterates on it to improve Product-Market Fit
5. Maintainer: owns a mature system to make it secure, reliable, fast, and efficient as it scales
I'm doing it with gemini-cli:
1. analyze '/Users/YOURNAME/Movies/' and for each mp4 file give a meaningful name base on the content of the video
2. analyze '/Users/YOURNAME/Pictures/' and for each image file give a meaningful name base on the content of the image
If you’ve been coding anytime in the past year, you’ve probably heard the buzz about Cursor — the AI-powered IDE that promises to write your code, clean your code, and maybe even refactor your soul.
It’s built on top of VS Code, so it feels instantly familiar.
But the moment you hit that shiny AI shortcut, you realize: this thing is smarter than your codebase and hungrier than your wallet.
After a few months of using Cursor — and after accidentally vaporizing a scandalous number of API tokens — I’ve learned how to stay productive and solvent.
And yes, the TL;DR is that you can still combine Cursor with Ollama + local models to get many of these benefits for free.
Here are my 8 hard-earned tips to make Cursor your loyal sidekick within the limits of your budget.
1. Prototyper: comes up with brand new ideas; churns out many ideas, most of which don't ship 2. Builder: quickly turns a prototype/idea into production-grade product/infra 3. Sweeper: cleans up the UI, simplifies the code and system, unships, optimizes performance 4. Grower: takes a product that has been built and iterates on it to improve Product-Market Fit 5. Maintainer: owns a mature system to make it secure, reliable, fast, and efficient as it scales