AI coding assistants excel at boilerplate, not inventing new algorithms
Chris Lattner · The Shape of Compute (Chris Lattner of Modular) · Jun 13, 2025 · at 1:10:18
Chris Lattner, founder of Modular, shares his experience using AI coding assistants like Cursor for systems programming in C++ and Mojo.
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“People within the company are dabbling with cloud code and some of the stuff, and so I don't have personal experience with that, but for me, I found that it's mostly, it is very useful, but it's really about boilerplate, and so it's not about inventing new algorithms and stuff like this, and it's probably because I'm not building a React component.”
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