Using Cursor, I, who can't write code replicated an AI application

songtell.space

2 points·Rersk··3 comments

This is exactly how we get a proper tech crash + an AI winter as we're seeing so-called VC funded startups getting cloned for free; worse case "open sourced" as well.

The job losses that everyone is finally realizing and now experiencing (which was predictable) will only accelerate.

This won't be a correction this time. It will be a massive tech crash followed by the start of a new AI winter.

After seeing so many Cursor tutorials, I, who has been in product operation for 5 years, finally used Cursor. My hard work paid off and I reproduced an application that generates the stories behind songs with AI. I used Deepseek API. Except that the response time was a bit slow, I was very satisfied with it.

I don't know if you're aware but most of the stuff in that website doesn't work.

That is, you have e.g. a section of "Trending stories" which are apparently clickable. I would expect that if I click one, it would take me directly to that song's "stories". But it doesn't. Clicking on them does nothing. Or the button at the bottom under "Ready to explore" which says "Try Songtell now". It's a button. I click it. It does nothing.

All the links in the footer, don't work. All eight of them. The "Quick links" -for pages like "About" or "Terms of Service" just go to 404. The "Connect" links for various social sites, just link to the current page itself.

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