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Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by Supermancho »

Quarrelsome wrote: post #526
Supermancho wrote: post #363

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This kind of comment is not helpful. The prediction has predated the discussion since at least Space Merchants (1953)

I appreciate its not helpful but its as helpful as imagining some absurd conspiratorial future. In the same vein I could ask if you're the CIA trying to suppress earnest conversation. It just does nothing but hand wring about a bunch of imagined nonsense.

I think the perceived situation is a matter of degree. I would say there's a measurable (almost overwhelming) amount of corporate influence already.

I have no doubt there are agency operatives influencing discussion online, from recorded precedence. Calling the concept 'nonsense' is overly dismissive. Regardless, using that kind of claim to deflect from the premise isn't a compelling reason to invalidate the concept. Ideas can stand on their own.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by ddxv »

minhaz23 wrote: post #469
ddxv wrote: post #419

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I love VSCode built in LLM harness. No extensions, use any model you want, amazing UX for reviews, control of agents. The sandboxing also seems great, I never see models touching anything they shouldn't.

Is this the chat on the side or the agents feature?

I have to admit I'm not clear the difference? It starts with the list of your sessions/agents . Then starting a new "agent" or question or plan. I usually use each agent for a few questions or prompts at most. Occasionally it runs longer than that.

I love using it for the chat question style where I ask it things like:

For these frontend pages with X options collect the database tables for each.

This is of course something easy to do manually, but I like it stepping through a couple functions much faster than me searching around manually and maybe getting lazy and not checking all of them.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by habosa »

Does anyone have any recommendations for something like Cursor but more open? Cursor's harness is so much faster than anything else I've used that I just can't give it up, using Claude Code feels like being on 0.25x speed. Also I do like the IDE-style UI, being able to highlight code in a file editor and then quickly add that to my chat (Cmd-L) is really nice and much more difficult in CLI based harnesses.

Right now I think GPT 5.6 Luna is by far the most cost effective model, so this change is effectively kicking me off of Cursor.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by ipython »

foxglacier wrote: post #533
ipython wrote: post #388

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At what point did the authors whose books showed up in the ai companies training data sets “give it all away” as you claim?

If the AI company bought their book, then they didn't give it all away. If the AI company obtained it indirectly like a library or 2nd hand, then the author has already been paid when he first sold it. In either case, he could have refused to be so liberal in sharing it if he didn't want it to be used like that, but he preferred to make some money instead.

Does a torrent count?

If buying one copy of a book entitles the ai company to train on that data and redistribute information derived from it in perpetuity, then why shouldn’t a rival ai company be allowed to train on tokens from say OpenAI and redistribute information derived from the OpenAI model also in perpetuity? The rival ai company paid for the tokens, after all.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by germandiago »

Timon3 wrote: post #448
notatoad wrote: post #413

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The monopoly on the use of force has gotten kinda blurry as well these days. As long as people keep electing anti-government governments, the risk of technocracy is very real.

Unfortunately this will keep happening in capitalist systems without hard wealth caps, because capitalists would rather risk the extermination of entire groups of people than risking their wealth, so they will inevitably keep spreading & stoking fascist ideas.

> capitalists would rather risk the extermination of entire groups of people than risking their wealth

I think that if you study socialism in the 20th century you cannot say this seriously when you compare the alternatives.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by s4i »

habosa wrote: post #543

Does anyone have any recommendations for something like Cursor but more open? Cursor's harness is so much faster than anything else I've used that I just can't give it up, using Claude Code feels like being on 0.25x speed. Also I do like the IDE-style UI, being able to highlight code in a file editor and then quickly add that to my chat (Cmd-L) is really nice and much more difficult in CLI based harnesses. Right now…

This, and the keep/undo flow, forking agent sessions (including renaming them)... The UX could be better at places but the core features of what Cursor has (for someone who came from VS Code) is an unbeatable mix. Really would like to find something else.

I did try Kiro which seems to have the same philosophy but it's just not there. Most of the features I like in Cursor are missing.

Some other commenters mentioned that VS Code + Copilot would be better these days. Dunno.

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by beckhamc »

disgruntledphd2 wrote: post #409
dexterlagan wrote: post #384

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I use Claude Code (both Desktop and CLI) all day every day (as well as OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 among others). For non-mission-critical stuff (small internal tools, anything that doesn't touch the client and doesn't handle critical data or infra), I'm on Auto (sandboxed in the working directory). For everything else I approve every change, meaning I review every code change the model proposes. Plan mode is great to…

How do you review the code? I can use git to see changes, but it's super annoying to tell the agent file line plus comment for each change, so I catch less stuff early which seems to compound.

This may be of use to you, I wrote a similar reply earlier in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486172#49491426

Re: Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX

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Post by Timon3 »

germandiago wrote: post #546
Timon3 wrote: post #448

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Unfortunately this will keep happening in capitalist systems without hard wealth caps, because capitalists would rather risk the extermination of entire groups of people than risking their wealth, so they will inevitably keep spreading & stoking fascist ideas.

> capitalists would rather risk the extermination of entire groups of people than risking their wealth I think that if you study socialism in the 20th century you cannot say this seriously when you compare the alternatives.

Ah yes, it's obviously acceptable that the richest people on this planet are deliberately and explicitly trying to pull us into fascism, because every single alternative must be even worse, because SOCIALISM!

Good thing you reminded us, otherwise we might've had critical thoughts about the current system.

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