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Re: Cursor CLI

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post #92

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Every time I’ve ever read a {CLAUDE|GEMINI|QWEN}.md I’ve thought all this information could just be in CONTRIBUTING.md instead.

Yes! I want an option to always add README.md to the context; It would force me to have a useful, up to date document about how to build, run, and edit my projects.

You can include in your prompt for it to read the README!

Re: Cursor CLI

#122
post #10

Claude Code finally has a serious competitor.

Not sure. So far Reddit seems largely negative on Cursor CLI + GPT-5 https://www.reddit.com/r/cursor/comments/1mk8ks5/discussion_...

They are all using mid-tier gpt-5 variants (not the "-high" one that's hidden by default, not gpt-5-thinking) and don't realize it

Re: Cursor CLI

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> 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?

The code isn’t the valuable part. They know all the most common workflows and failure modes, allowing them to create better environments for training agentic models

Re: Cursor CLI

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post #98

I 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.

I find the Codex CLI to be the worst of the CLI tools I’ve used (including, but not limited to, Claude Code, Gemini, Aider). There’s something about it that makes it clunky. Haven’t tried Cursor CLI yet though.

Re: Cursor CLI

#125
I really like the IDE. It makes enough mistakes that I need to be constantly testing and catching little errors. I’ll interrupt the flow often when it’s going down a path I don’t want it to. When using Codex, for example, it’s doing too much in the background that is harder to correct afterwards. Am I doing this wrong?

Re: Cursor CLI

#126
post #121
post #92

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Yes! I want an option to always add README.md to the context; It would force me to have a useful, up to date document about how to build, run, and edit my projects.

You can include in your prompt for it to read the README!

Ultimately if this stuff is actually intelligent it should be using the same sources of information that we intelligent beings use. Feels silly to have to have to jump through all these hoops to make it work today

Re: Cursor CLI

#127
post #98

I 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?

My company has a huge codebase, for me cursor would freeze up / not find relevant files. Claude code seems able to find the right files by itself.

I seem to always have better outcomes with Claude code.

Re: Cursor CLI

#128
post #105
post #90

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I just wish the AGENTS.md standard wasn't a single file. I have a lot of smaller context documents that aren't applicable to every task, so I like to throw them into a folder (.ai/ or .agents/) and then selectively cat them together or tell the agent to read them.

You can put them in subdirectories like CODEOWNERS files. https://ampcode.com/AGENT.md#multiple-agent-files

>When multiple files exist, tools SHOULD merge the configurations with more specific files taking precedence over general ones.

How is the tool supposed to merge multiple md files?

Re: Cursor CLI

#129
post #53

I 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

When they stop getting desperate for differentiation by spamming their brand advertising in your repo against your will. Claude Code likes to add "attribution" in commit messages, which is just pure spam.

It’s not spam, it lets people know it was written by an LLM and maybe you should look closer at it.

Re: Cursor CLI

#130
post #68

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As someone who hasn’t used Claude Code yet, can’t you configure it somehow to use a different tool of your liking, or it has to be in the cli?

I end up using the VCS tooling (lazygit for me), but coding agents really need to be integrated with this review environment. We need an extra step where the agent will group its changes into logical units (database models in one commit, types in another, business logic in another, tests in another), rather than having to review per-file. Programming has changed from writing code to reviewing/QAing and reprompting, b…

I just merge the change and review the diff. If it’s wrong I either revert or ask Claude to fix it.
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