#productivity

7 items tagged #productivity.

CASE STUDY 2026-05-07

Three months of Cursor on a production Rails app: the honest numbers

I tracked task completion times before and after adopting Cursor on a 6-year-old Rails monolith. The results were more nuanced than the marketing suggests.

Owner · 11 min #cursor #rails

GUIDE 2026-05-01

How to write Cursor prompts that actually work

Most Cursor prompts fail not because the model is bad, but because the request is vague. Here's how to give Cursor enough context to stop guessing.

Owner · 7 min #cursor #prompts

BLOG 2026-04-26

Measuring AI coding ROI without fooling yourself

Vendors publish '40% productivity gains'. Internal teams report similar numbers. The reality, when measured carefully, is more modest and more interesting.

Owner · 8 min #measurement #productivity

GUIDE 2026-04-18

Copilot Chat vs inline completions: a workflow split that saves 30 minutes a day

Most Copilot users mix the two surfaces randomly. There's a clear split that produces better output for both, and it's about a five-minute habit shift.

Owner · 6 min #copilot #workflow

BLOG 2026-04-12

The '10x faster with AI' claim, deconstructed

Engineers love to claim AI made them 10x faster. They mean something specific by it, and that specific thing isn't what the claim sounds like.

Owner · 6 min #productivity #claims

BLOG 2026-01-26

The tab completion paradox: simpler features outperform agent loops for daily work

Engineers report Tab autocomplete saves them more time than agent features over a typical day. The marketing emphasizes the wrong thing.

Owner · 4 min #tools #productivity

BLOG 2026-01-24

The hidden cost of bad AI tool defaults

Most engineers use their AI tools at default settings. The defaults are often wrong for the engineer's workflow. The friction adds up.

Owner · 4 min #tools #productivity