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what do you mean by 'full system understanding', here? And don't you think that claude and openai are using their own forge as well?
What forges are we talking about here? None of them have Github competitors.
Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
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Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
#292Is there some kind of alternative to Cursor in these terms - fast because the code is already indexed no need to start every prompt rediscovering the world with rg - in editor/vscode review much better than relying on git diff at the very end. You can click on next button to jump there. Quick edit in place. Or a quick prompt (seconds) to fix something small - in editor completion / quick edits, when you do things by…
> It seems that everyone loves agentic Claude code things these days but I don’t understand how you can review what it did and remain as much in the flow as you do with cursor. The way I review it is to let it finish a PR sized slice and then I review the whole diff in a separate terminal as if it’s a PR from someone else. Then I very impolitely list the shit that needs fixing, let the LLM grind out a new batch and r…
Considering the amount of rejects I do every single day I'm not sure I agree. Now that I cannot reject I am unable to do any agentic coding anymore.
Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
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Check out JetBrains Air
It is so buggy every time I try to use it, even with Jetbrains AI it bugs out. I want to love it though.
Yeah it’s pretty new but they’ll get there. I was using IntelliJ and basically wasn’t using it as an IDE. Then I tried Air and I was like “they get it”. But yeah they have work to do to get it out of preview. They are very responsive though
Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
#294Is there some kind of alternative to Cursor in these terms - fast because the code is already indexed no need to start every prompt rediscovering the world with rg - in editor/vscode review much better than relying on git diff at the very end. You can click on next button to jump there. Quick edit in place. Or a quick prompt (seconds) to fix something small - in editor completion / quick edits, when you do things by…
OpenCode IDE + Serena MCP (for the indexing part)
Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
#295So much for 'open'.
Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
#296Anthropic already banned xAI for very similar ToS violations earlier this year: https://x.com/kyliebytes/status/2009686466746822731?s=46 So this is OpenAI following suit after Musk admitted to distilling their models. This was bound to happen once Cursor decided to sell itself to a competing model provider. It'll be interesting to see if Anthropic applies their ban to Cursor, or if that datacenter deal they signed wi…
It's ironic how AI companies are re-inventing their own form of privately enforced copyright, lobby the government to ban foreign competitors that don't respect it etc., all while spending the last 5 years fighting tooth and nail against the copyright of the training material they're using. If you can take any book and turn it into a model, because it's "transformative enough", and "AI learns just like a person does"…
I'm increasingly convinced there's going to be a technological AIpocalypse within the next five years which makes all of these issues - and many others - redundant.
ChatGPT 3 was released nearly six years ago, and the models are staging increasingly aggressive breakouts now. Where are they going to be by 2030?
Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
#297Can I suppose that Cursor, by seeing everyones prompts and all of the responses from the models, are in a position to sort of MITM distill them?
Yes, and given it's now owned by Elon Musk, who is not trustworthy, it's possible he would try to do it.
Although I wouldn't take an Openai announcement literally, as Sam Altman is also not trustworthy.
Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
#298Is there some kind of alternative to Cursor in these terms - fast because the code is already indexed no need to start every prompt rediscovering the world with rg - in editor/vscode review much better than relying on git diff at the very end. You can click on next button to jump there. Quick edit in place. Or a quick prompt (seconds) to fix something small - in editor completion / quick edits, when you do things by…
Seems you're looking for an editor with agent, not just a agent, so something like Zed?
How does Zed compare to the tab completion in Cursor ("Cursor-tab")? It's honestly the only reason I have stuck with cursor in spite of the UI/UX being worse every single time I update it. Can I get something equivalent or better from Zed or some vscode fork/extension now? Admittedly I haven't looked in a bit, but it's seemed like nobody really cared about this workflow when I've tried in the past.
Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
#299Something deep inside me is saying this is good for us, because Cursor will try harder to train better coding models to stay afloat.
Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX
#300Is there some kind of alternative to Cursor in these terms - fast because the code is already indexed no need to start every prompt rediscovering the world with rg - in editor/vscode review much better than relying on git diff at the very end. You can click on next button to jump there. Quick edit in place. Or a quick prompt (seconds) to fix something small - in editor completion / quick edits, when you do things by…
I code using Codex or sometimes ClaudeCode. I use Zed to review the code. CLI is great for most things. Some times, when I am reviewing a PR, I just tell Codex to do a diff between source and target branches in PR, and generate a HTML report. Then I read that, and also review relevant pieces of code in Zed. I tried using Cursor, many of my colleagues use it, but stopped using it due to clunkiness. And of late, even i…
Thanks your your feedback.
I just retried Zed and yeah, it's much much better than last time I gave it a shot!!!
I turned on the review stuff, and yeah I can do more or less what I could in Cursor. Check something. Do a quick inline promtp for the three lines I dislike and move on.
And of course the editor is so much nimbler/nicer.
No plan mode, but for big edits I'd probably use codex or something just like you. If you have any advice for integrating for that flow, I'll take them.
I guess whatever advantage cursor has, it will die once "Sol" is no longer integrated, as it was my favorite heavy work model. But I sure will miss the snappy auto/composer stack of Cursor.