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Re: Cursor CLI

#11

Post by bangaladore » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 9:43 PM UTC

unsupp0rted wrote: post #2

What's the benefit of this compared to the IDE? To be more like Claude Code?

Many of these companies are realizing that mainline VSCode is a moat of sorts. I and many people I know won't use any of these that require forking VSCode.

With the benefit that you can also pull in people who don't like using VSCode such as people who use Jetbrains or terminal based code editors.

Re: Cursor CLI

#12

Post by afro88 » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 9:47 PM UTC

Claude Code but can use GPT-5 built in. Not a bad selling point

Re: Cursor CLI

#13

Post by jameskraus » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 9:48 PM UTC

I wonder if this will support directly interfacing with OpenAI's APIs vs. going through Cursor's APIs (and billing).

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by gorjusborg » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 9:49 PM UTC

unsupp0rted wrote: post #2

What's the benefit of this compared to the IDE? To be more like Claude Code?

Flip your thinking around for a second and consider why an IDE is required for an agent that codes for you?

The IDE/editor is for me, the agent doesn't need it. That also means I am not forced to used whatever imperfect forked IDE the agent is implemented against.

Re: Cursor CLI

#15

Post by blitzar » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 9:51 PM UTC

Pivot to CLI

Re: Cursor CLI

#16

Post by htrp » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 9:53 PM UTC

They are all clones of gemini cli at this point?

Re: Cursor CLI

#17

Post by alessandrorubio » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 9:54 PM UTC

Wouldn't be better to just use the Warp AI solution at this point?

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by coconut08 » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 9:55 PM UTC

is there a way to get it to display more information? its stuck not doing anything and i cant tell if that's because it timed out or it is running a script or it is thinking or what is even happening. sometimes it just does things without even giving any feedback at all. i dont know what it is thinking or what it is trying to do and i cant really see the output of the terminal commands it is running. it just pauses every once in a while and asks to run a command.

is there a way to make it more verbose?

Re: Cursor CLI

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Post by hollerith » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 9:56 PM UTC

htrp wrote: post #16

They are all clones of gemini cli at this point?

Since Gemini CLI was released under the Apache license, a clone is easy to make.

Re: Cursor CLI

#20

Post by huydotnet » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 9:57 PM UTC

afro88 wrote: post #12

Claude Code but can use GPT-5 built in. Not a bad selling point

and access to Cursor's background agent on the web as well, like ChatGPT Codex. So to this point, I'm regret cancelling my Cursor subscription already