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Re: Cursor 3

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Post by leerob »

extr wrote: post #30

What is Cursor doing? They need to relax a little bit. Recently I saw they released "Glass" which WAS here: https://cursor.com/glass , now just redirects to /download. Is "Cursor 3" == Glass? I get they feel like their identity means they need to constantly be pushing the envelope in terms of agent UX. But they could stand to have like an "experimental" track and a "This is VS Code but with better AI integration" tra…

Glass was a codename while the UI was in early alpha with testers. It redirects to download now because there is no special link anymore. It's just part of Cursor 3 itself.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by seamossfet »

leerob wrote: post #21
whicks wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agreed completely on this (as a heavy daily user of Cursor). It's been the perfect in-between of coding by hand (never again!) and strictly "vibe coding" for me. Being able to keep my eyes on all the changes in a "traditional" IDE view helps me maintain a mental model of how my systems work. I'm hoping in this new UI in v3 I can still get that experience (maybe it's just hidden behind a toggle somewhere for power use…

I'm an engineer at Cursor, can try to clarify questions here. > I wish they'd keep the old philosophy of letting the developer drive and the agent assist. Even when I'm using AI agents to write code, I still find myself spending most of my time reading and reasoning about code. We very much still believe this, which is why even in this new interface, you can still view/edit files, do remote SSH, go to definition and…

> We very much still believe this

That's good to hear, I might have jumped a little too quickly in my opinion. It's a bit of a Pavlovian response at this point seeing a product I very much love embrace a giant chat window as a UX redesign haha.

I would love to see more features on the roadmap that are more aligned with users like us that really embrace the Cursor 2 style with the code itself being the focal point. I'm sure there's a lot you can do there to help preserve code mental models when working with agents that don't hide the code behind a chat interface.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by tipsysquid »

vachina wrote: post #29
pjmlp wrote: post #20

What would all these companies do without Microsoft shipping VS Code as open source, probably still stuck with vi and Emacs. Still curious which ones will survive when the AI gold diggers finally settle.

There's also Eclipse.

shudders does anyone pine for eclipes?

I haven't used it in a decade, Im sure it has has evolved

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by mgrandl »

pjmlp wrote: post #20

What would all these companies do without Microsoft shipping VS Code as open source, probably still stuck with vi and Emacs. Still curious which ones will survive when the AI gold diggers finally settle.

Sounds like cursor is not using vscode anymore in this release?

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by cyral »

acedTrex wrote: post #18

So they are just turning into another vibe code slop app? At least before they were tangentially still an actual developer tool, standard vsc windows, the code was the point etc. Now they offer really nothing interesting for professionals.

All the VS code stuff is literally still there

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by seamossfet »

vachina wrote: post #29
pjmlp wrote: post #20

What would all these companies do without Microsoft shipping VS Code as open source, probably still stuck with vi and Emacs. Still curious which ones will survive when the AI gold diggers finally settle.

There's also Eclipse.

Oh my god, this comment gave me flashbacks to when I was writing android apps in Eclipse + ADT
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