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Ask HN: What's your experience with Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 for coding?
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Re: Ask HN: What's your experience with Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 for coding?
#12Did anyone have similar experience with Cody comparing cody with cursor? Most of the metrics does not correlate much with everyday programming tasks. Excluding sourcegrah employees who usually comment on these comparisons comments.
Wondering the same, I've been using Cody and after looking at these Cursor videos am not really seeing what's better about it (not affiliated to Sourcegraph). Just looks very similar but you have to use their VSCode fork. Being able to use a local model could become an advantage but not relevant when talking about using it with Sonnet 3.5.
Re: Ask HN: What's your experience with Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 for coding?
#13Why was this nuked from the front page? I was really looking forward to this discussion.
I didn’t flag, but it reads a bit like promotion framed as a question to me.
Re: Ask HN: What's your experience with Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 for coding?
#14I'm using Zed alongside its new LLM integration with Claude Sonnet 3.5 and I'm really really enjoying it. The workflow and the way you control what goes into the context feels very good and efficient and mimics the way I've been using LLMs before, just MUCH faster and convenient.
Re: Ask HN: What's your experience with Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 for coding?
#15I'm using Zed alongside its new LLM integration with Claude Sonnet 3.5 and I'm really really enjoying it. The workflow and the way you control what goes into the context feels very good and efficient and mimics the way I've been using LLMs before, just MUCH faster and convenient.
Likewise, I have been doing the same.
I have an idea for a small side-project and I have been trying this workflow for styling via tailwind, adding some interactivity, etc. It can get surprisingly good, especially by easily sharing terminal output, access to files and folders and other convenient things.
Definitely worth checking out!
Re: Ask HN: What's your experience with Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 for coding?
#16Why was this nuked from the front page? I was really looking forward to this discussion.
If users flag a story on hn, some kind of ranking penalty is applied.
Re: Ask HN: What's your experience with Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 for coding?
#17JetBrains has a pretty good integration with CoPilot, am wondering how cursor compares with it.
Re: Ask HN: What's your experience with Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 for coding?
#18I'm in the same boat, about to get stuck in to Cursor. But I'm wondering if it might be better to go with a VS Code extension like Continue.
With Continue you can use your own local copy of an LLM, and also query LLM API endpoints, so therefore better for a pay as you go solution and cheaper if you are a heavy user. Also you can carry on using VS Code as your editor of course.
This is my understanding of the trade offs. I assume that Cursor has better functionality and is better at coding for it to be a serious option compared with the VSCode extensions. I'm going to try out both and see what I like best.
Re: Ask HN: What's your experience with Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 for coding?
#19I just started using it a few days ago after hearing about it here.
So far, it feels transformational for my productivity. I've been using the ChatGPT and Claude webapps a few times a week for specific problems for a year, but this level of integration makes a big difference. Particularly for parts of the stack I'm not super experienced with -- I'm a backend/ML developer, but I was putting together a web UI with Tailwind for a personal project yesterday. I highlighted the ~20 lines of HTML for a menu bar, pressed Cmd+K and typed "can you make this take up a little less space on mobile?" and it adjusted the breakpoints and sizes of multiple elements perfectly. Pretty cool stuff.
Re: Ask HN: What's your experience with Cursor and Sonnet 3.5 for coding?
#20I'm not using Cursor, but I'm still using Sonnet 3.5, although with https://aider.chat/ which is basically a TUI program to make the LLM a "pair programmer" - it can replace chunks of code, operate over multiple files, there's a repository map for it to check (for symbols), etc.