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Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by ramoz »

BoorishBears wrote: post #94
ramoz wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of power in social influence. Especially with the younger generations who remix that influence - compound spread of mindshare. Cursor is all over social media.

That's silly. Cursor has the best autocomplete experience, period, and some people prefer that to agent-style interactions. There's still a ton of low hanging fruit that other Copilot-style autocomplete products don't seem to be picking up, like using clipboard contents, identifying the next place in the file to jump to, etc. I primarily save time coding with AI with autocomplete, followed by chat, with agentic flows…

It’s not silly at all. There is a lot of hyper activity going in terms of social influence.

I didn’t say cursor has poor UX.

I tab too. And use agent for cheaper work I don’t care too much about. That said, the best autocomplete is arguably evolving and cursor does not own that.

Re: Cursor 1.0

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Post by jen729w »

smcleod wrote: post #56

I don't really see why people still use Cursor over tools like Cline / Roo Code. I'm guessing it's as they clearly have a larger viral marketing department than engineers, as the application itself doesn't perform nearly as well, requires you to have another IDE installed and their subscriptions nerf the models context sizes etc...

Remember, not everyone is a pro dev. I'm certainly not: and in that context I find Cursor to be incredibly simple and useful.

It's just like VSC, which I was using, but it has these magical abilities. I was using it within a minute of downloading it. Unlike Cline, I guess, whatever that is.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#103

Post by ramoz »

steveklabnik wrote: post #87
ramoz wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think about this daily. More devs are starting to pick up on Claude Code. The initial “not an IDE!” scare is usually diminished within the initial session. I don’t think the future of agentic software development is in an IDE. Claude Code gives me power to orchestrate - the UX has nothing to do with terminal; it just turns out an agent that lives on the OS and in the filesystem is a powerful thing. Anthropic can an…

You might find this post interesting: https://steipete.me/posts/2025/claude-code-is-my-computer It… sure is something. I’m still thinking about if it’s horrible, visionary, or both.

Wow yea, definitely resonates thanks for sharing.

This is why I think the future may be less about “agents” and more about “intelligent infrastructure”

I don’t want to chat. I want to point a wand and make things happen.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#104

Post by nextos »

Aeolun wrote: post #47
nojs wrote: post #44

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It’s more of a ticking time bomb because it relies so heavily on upstream model providers who all have competing products, particularly Claude Code.

Until Claude Code becomes manageable price wise, I don’t think Cursor really sees them as their competition. I can burn the whole cursor subscription price in a single day with Claude Code.

I've found Emacs plus gptel very pleasant to use. And following the ethos of Emacs, it is backend agnostic and very malleable.

Besides, if you want something inexpensive, using Gemini 2.0 Flash as a backend is completely free. Google provides an API key at no cost.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#105

Post by SkyPuncher »

curiousElf wrote: post #95

I wish they had proper support for multi root repos (even though the last update promised better support, it was just a line in the release notes with no docs - which seems to be their usual change management style). Its so painful - the model never knows the directory in which it is supposed to be and goes on a wild goose chase of searching in the wrong repo. I have to keep guiding it to the right repo. Anyone here…

I have a cursor rule that tells it about directories. Basically just X is UI, Y is BE, Z is auth.

Keep it short. It's enough for it to realize it needs to navigate directories.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#106

Post by remixff2400 »

ed_mercer wrote: post #73
lopatin wrote: post #8

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I feel unstoppable with Claude Code Max. I never thought I'd pay $200 per month for any developer tool, yet here we are, and I also couldn't be happier with it.

Can you elaborate? How is it better than Cursor?

I just started with it, so still getting my feet wet, but it's been better than any other tool at really grokking my codebase and understanding my intent. The workflow feels better than a strict IDE integration, but it does get pricey really quickly, and you pretty much need at least the $100 Max subscription.

Luckily, it should be coming with the regular $20 Pro subscription in the near future, so it should be easier to demo and get a feel for it without having to jump in all the way.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#107

Post by BoorishBears »

ramoz wrote: post #101
BoorishBears wrote: post #94

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's silly. Cursor has the best autocomplete experience, period, and some people prefer that to agent-style interactions. There's still a ton of low hanging fruit that other Copilot-style autocomplete products don't seem to be picking up, like using clipboard contents, identifying the next place in the file to jump to, etc. I primarily save time coding with AI with autocomplete, followed by chat, with agentic flows…

It’s not silly at all. There is a lot of hyper activity going in terms of social influence. I didn’t say cursor has poor UX. I tab too. And use agent for cheaper work I don’t care too much about. That said, the best autocomplete is arguably evolving and cursor does not own that.

Someone said "I don't really see why people still use Cursor over tools like Cline / Roo Code"

And your answer is "A lot of power in social influence.", which is a bit silly when autocomplete is the first form of AI assistance a critical mass of people found intuitive + helpful and Cursor has the best implementation of it... meanwhile Cline/Roo Code don't provide it.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#108

Post by blixt »

I keep switching away from and back to Cursor (mainly due to frontier models explicitly fighting their apply model, the first few times it’s funny to see the LLM itself write “this is frustrating” but I digress).

And every time I find it having diverged further from VSCode compatibility.

This wouldn’t be so bad if it was an intentional design choice but it seems more that Microsoft is starting to push them out? Like MS Dev Containers plugin is still recommended by some leftover internal, but if you install it you get pushed to a flow that auto uninstalls it and installs Remote Containers by Anysphere (which works differently and lacks support for some features). And I end up rebuilding my Dev Container once more… I also noticed recent extensions such as the Postgres one from MS also doesn’t exist.

Re: Cursor 1.0

#109

Post by ecb_penguin »

thegrim33 wrote: post #90

It's an IDE but they don't bother to list on their website what languages you can use the IDE to develop for? I feel like I'm going crazy here. How can they not bother to mention that on their website / marketing?

They support every language through their plugin architecture.

"Cursor works with any programming language. We’ve explicitely worked to improve the performance of our custom models — Tab included — on important but less popular languages like Rust, C++, and CUDA."

Hundreds of languages supported: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/overview

Re: Cursor 1.0

#110

Post by ecb_penguin »

smcleod wrote: post #56

I don't really see why people still use Cursor over tools like Cline / Roo Code. I'm guessing it's as they clearly have a larger viral marketing department than engineers, as the application itself doesn't perform nearly as well, requires you to have another IDE installed and their subscriptions nerf the models context sizes etc...

> I don't really see why people still use Cursor over tools like Cline / Roo Code

Because we're developers with things to build and we don't have time to play with every AI tool backed by the same LLM.

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