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Re: Cursor 3

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Post by mstaoru »

I echo the others' sentiments that I still strongly prefer to write code mostly manually, assisted by Tab completions, and only generate piecewise via Cmd+K where I'm not sure about APIs or forgot the exact syntax. Chatting in Ask only mode about more complex problems.

Maybe I'm not a 10x developer, I'm fine with that.

Cursor shoving Agents down my throat made me abandon and cancel it once this year. I jumped around between Sublime, Zed, VS Code, and alas none of them has a Tab completion experience that even remotely compares with Cursor, so I had to switch back.

If possible, I'll probably stay on v2 until it's deprecated. Hope Zed catches by that time.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by manmal »

dirtbag__dad wrote: post #265
athoscouto wrote: post #246

Cursor has been my main AI tool for over a year now. I've been trying to use Claude Code seriously for over a month, but every time I do it, I get the impression that it would take me less work to do with Cursor. I'm on the enterprise plan, so it can get pricey. This is why I used to stick mostly to auto mode. Now Composer 2 has taken over as my default model. It is not as intelligent as OpenAI's or Anthropic's flags…

I was a Cursor loyal until I was spending around $2k a week with premium models and my team had a discussion about whether we’d want to use more Cursor over hire another engineer. We unanimously agreed we’d rather hire another team member. I’m more productive than ever but I’m burning out. Anyway, as a result, I switched to Claude Code Max and I am equally as prolific and paying 1/10th the price. I get my cake and to…

There is no Max sub for enterprise AFAIK, are you using a private plan for work?

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by submeta »

I prefer cli based coding agents (Codex or Claude Code). I use wezterm and tmux, split my screen, open neovim on the left, lazygit below neovim, my coding agent on the right.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by merlindru »

mstaoru wrote: post #351

I echo the others' sentiments that I still strongly prefer to write code mostly manually, assisted by Tab completions, and only generate piecewise via Cmd+K where I'm not sure about APIs or forgot the exact syntax. Chatting in Ask only mode about more complex problems. Maybe I'm not a 10x developer, I'm fine with that. Cursor shoving Agents down my throat made me abandon and cancel it once this year. I jumped around…

Try Mercury by Inception. It's available as autocomplete in Zed. Last time I tried it, Zed had an API key hidden in their docs that allowed you to use it for free

The crazy thing is that it's a diffusion-based LLM. That makes it very fast, like Cursor Tab, and the outputs seem very accurate in my limited testing (although I find Cursor Tab to still feel "like 10% better")

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That said, you should really give agentic coding a la Claude Code a try. It's gotten incredibly good. I still need to check the outputs of course, but after using it for 2-3 days, I've learned to "think" about how to tackle a problem with it similarly like I had to learn when first picking up programming.

Once I did, suddenly it didn't feel risky and weird anymore, because it's doing what I would've done manually anyways. Step by step. It might not be as blackboxy as you think it is

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by never_inline »

mstaoru wrote: post #351

I echo the others' sentiments that I still strongly prefer to write code mostly manually, assisted by Tab completions, and only generate piecewise via Cmd+K where I'm not sure about APIs or forgot the exact syntax. Chatting in Ask only mode about more complex problems. Maybe I'm not a 10x developer, I'm fine with that. Cursor shoving Agents down my throat made me abandon and cancel it once this year. I jumped around…

You might want to try this, one step ahead of Ctrl+K

Define the interface and functions and let the AI fill in the blanks.

Eg: I want XYZ class with methodFoo and methodBar which connects to APIabcd and fetch details. Define classes for response types based on API documentation at ...., use localLibraryXYZ for ABCD.

This is the way I found to work well for me. I maintain a tight grip over the architecture, even the low level architecture, and LLM writes code I can't be bothered to write.

I find tab completions very irritating. They're "almost" correct but miss some detail. I'd rather review all of that at once rather than when writing code.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by merlindru »

wazHFsRy wrote: post #305
nu11ptr wrote: post #91

I've been running Claude Code in my Cursor IDE for a while now via extension. I like the setup, and I direct Claude on one task at a time, while still having full access to my code (and nice completions via Cursor). I still spend time tweaking, etc. before committing. I have zero interest in these new "swarms of agents" they are trying to force on us from every direction. I can barely keep straight my code working on…

I just wish Claude code would also offer fast inline auto complete. Sometimes I’ll just want to have a function definition or some boilerplate spelled out without waiting for the slow Claude response. Or actively switching models. ——- Maybe I can set up a shortcut for that?

Not a real solution but you could try using AquaVoice for dictation. It can gather screen context so you just say the function name out loud and it capitalizes and spells everything correctly. (Even hard cases!)

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by dominotw »

simlevesque wrote: post #83
dominotw wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that doesnt make sense. how?

Here's how to use MiniMax v2.7 for example: https://platform.minimax.io/docs/token-plan/claude-code You just add this to your ~/.claude/settings.json: { "env": { "DISABLE_AUTOUPDATER": "1", "ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL": "https://api.minimax.io/anthropic", "ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN": "YOUR_SECRET_KEY", "API_TIMEOUT_MS": "3000000", "CLAUDE_CODE_DISABLE_NONESSENTIAL_TRAFFIC": 1, "ANTHROPIC_MODEL": "MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed", "ANTHROP…

ah 'almost' . i want to use codex.

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by signatoremo »

vips7L wrote: post #286
linsomniac wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>I have zero interest in these new "swarms of agents" I think you misunderstand "swarms of agents", based on what you say above. An agent swarm, in my understanding and checked via a google search, does not imply working on multiple features at one time. It is working on one feature with multiple agents taking different roles on that task. Like maybe a python expert, a code simplifier, a UI/UX expert, a QA tester, an…

They’re not experts.

Sensitive but uninformed. Expert is a common AI concept, going back for decades. It wasn’t invented with LLM.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expert_system

Re: Cursor 3

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Post by dirtbag__dad »

manmal wrote: post #352
dirtbag__dad wrote: post #265

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was a Cursor loyal until I was spending around $2k a week with premium models and my team had a discussion about whether we’d want to use more Cursor over hire another engineer. We unanimously agreed we’d rather hire another team member. I’m more productive than ever but I’m burning out. Anyway, as a result, I switched to Claude Code Max and I am equally as prolific and paying 1/10th the price. I get my cake and to…

There is no Max sub for enterprise AFAIK, are you using a private plan for work?

Yes. This seemed to be more cost effective.
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