They haven't built their own editor, they haven't built their own models; what have they actually built?
What they the money for?
Cursor: Past, Present, and Future
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#12I love Cursor.
I’m greedy to ask but is there a better alternative? Hard for me to imagine. I tried Copilot was no where near as good.
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#13I love Cursor. I’m greedy to ask but is there a better alternative? Hard for me to imagine. I tried Copilot was no where near as good.
I like Claude Code in the terminal. For me it's so good it don't need IDE integration. I'm just using emacs and magit to navigate the code out of band.
Re: Cursor: Past, Present, and Future
#14I love Cursor. I’m greedy to ask but is there a better alternative? Hard for me to imagine. I tried Copilot was no where near as good.
I have both Cursor and VS code copilot in my work machine, but haven't really felt the need to use Cursor. VS code agent mode with Claude Sonnet is actually taking care of everything so far, plus I get to keep using my old launch config and debugging workflow.
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#15I love Cursor. I’m greedy to ask but is there a better alternative? Hard for me to imagine. I tried Copilot was no where near as good.
Of course, Sourcegraph is better.
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#16I love Cursor. I’m greedy to ask but is there a better alternative? Hard for me to imagine. I tried Copilot was no where near as good.
Cursor has the best tab-complete.
For agentic coding, people tend to prefer Codex or Claude Code, but I haven't heard many opinions about Cursor's new Composer yet.
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#17I love Cursor. I’m greedy to ask but is there a better alternative? Hard for me to imagine. I tried Copilot was no where near as good.
Of course, Sourcegraph is better.
What does Amp do better than Claude Code or Codex? I find the concept pretty appealing but the pricing is a bit scary.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course, Sourcegraph is better.
What does Amp do better than Claude Code or Codex? I find the concept pretty appealing but the pricing is a bit scary.
It has better search and context management under the hood, which matters for big companies.
But you can also see quantitatively that Sourcegraph produces the most accepted code: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-catching-anth...
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#19I love Cursor. I’m greedy to ask but is there a better alternative? Hard for me to imagine. I tried Copilot was no where near as good.
Comments like this remind me how much of the ai/agentic ecosystem is based on people's personal vibes and emotions
I've seen very little, meaningful difference. They all have their quirks, things their good at / bad at. The underlying models are very similar as well
Re: Cursor: Past, Present, and Future
#20They haven't built their own editor, they haven't built their own models; what have they actually built?
Well, they delivered something that is usable and useful for me and my team, and a lot of people I know, and I guess that’s what counts in business?