I’m mostly going to use this as a convenient way to run ffmpeg. Previously I’d need to open Cursor and ask for commands in the terminal there.
Cursor CLI
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Re: Cursor CLI
#112With all the frontier labs competing in this space now, and them letting you use your consumer subscription through the CLI, I don’t understand how the Cursor products will survive. Why pay an extra $X/mo when I can get this functionality included in the $Y/mo I’m already paying OAI/Anthropic/GOOG?
I think the complete opposite. I love the ux for claude code, but it would be better if it wasnt locked to a single vendor's model. It seems pretty clear to me that a vendor neutral product with a UX as good as Claude Code would be the clear winner.
Re: Cursor CLI
#113Fascinating to see how agents are redefining what IDEs are. This was not really the case in the chat AI era. But as autonomy increases, the traditional IDE UI becomes less important form of interaction. I think those CLI tools have pretty good chance to create a new dev tools ecosystem. Creating a full featured language plugin (let alone a full IDE) for VSCode or Intellij is not for a faint-hearted, and cross IDE por…
IDE UI should shift to focusing on catching agentic problems early and obviously, and providing drop dead simple rollback strategies, parallel survival-of-the-fittest solution generation, etc
Re: Cursor CLI
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my experience, it is much better at tool-calling, which is huge when we're talking about agentic coding. It also seems to do a better job of keeping things cleaning and not going off on tangents for anything that isn't accomplished in one shot.
I have had the exact opposite experience. Claude Code in any meaningful codebase for me gets stuck in loops of doing the wrong thing. Then when that doesn't work it deletes files and makes its own that don't have the problem it's encountering. Cursor on the other hand, especially with GPT-5 today but typically with Sonnet 4.1, has been a workhorse at my company for months. I have never had Claude Code complete a mean…
Better prompts?
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#115I wonder when all of them will adopt AGENT.md and stop using gemini.md/claude.md/crush.md/summary.md/qwen.md https://agent.md [redirect -> https://ampcode.com/AGENT.md ] https://agent-rules.org
FWIW at least with Claude and Jules on a project I have a decent setup where I put all of the real content in an agents.md and then use “@agents.md” in CLAUDE.md. If all of the tools supported these kinds of context references in markdown it wouldn’t be that hard to have a single source of truth for memory files.
Same here each specific instruction file (vs code, cursor, etc.) just says read the AGENTS.md for instructions
Re: Cursor CLI
#116I went from years of vscode to "Cursor is the future" to never using Cursor at all. Claude Code, even with new limits, is just too good. If I were to switch to gpt-5, why wouldn't I just use Codex? I'm struggling to understand the value of what they're presenting.
Why is Claude Code better than Cursor?
Because iterating multiple sessions through multiple terminals is obviously more efficient and seamless than interacting thought a scuffed IDE side panel ui.
Re: Cursor CLI
#117i'm betting on cursor being the long-term best toolset. 1. with tight integration between cli, background agent, ide, github apps (e.g. bugbot), cursor will accommodate the end-to-end developer experience. 2. as frontier models internalize task routing, there won't be much that feels special about claude code anymore. 3. we should always promote low switching costs between model providers (by supporting independent c…
> we should always promote low switching costs between model providers (by supporting independent companies), keeping incentives toward improving the models not ui/data/network lock-in
You’re underestimating the dollars at play here. With cursor routing all your tokens, they will become a foundation model play sooner than you may think
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#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have (not an exhaustive list) SSH keys and sensitive repositories hanging out on my filesystem. I don't trust _myself_ with that, let alone an LLM, unless I'm running ollama or similar local nonsense with no net connectivity. I'm a few degrees removed from an air gapped environment so obviously YMMV. Frankly I find the idea of an LLM writing files or being allowed to access databases or similar cases directly dista…
Your obviously skilled, spending the money on a Claude only machine would pay for itself in less than three weeks. If I was your employer, it would be a no brainer.
Make me that offer :D
Re: Cursor CLI
#119has to be, given the hype surrounding claude code, a few of them are using claude code just cause it's terminal based.
Re: Cursor CLI
#120i'm betting on cursor being the long-term best toolset. 1. with tight integration between cli, background agent, ide, github apps (e.g. bugbot), cursor will accommodate the end-to-end developer experience. 2. as frontier models internalize task routing, there won't be much that feels special about claude code anymore. 3. we should always promote low switching costs between model providers (by supporting independent c…
> we should always promote low switching costs between model providers (by supporting independent companies), keeping incentives toward improving the models not ui/data/network lock-in You’re underestimating the dollars at play here. With cursor routing all your tokens, they will become a foundation model play sooner than you may think
You're allowing them to train on your code?