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Cursor 1.0
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Re: Cursor 1.0
#132I love Cursor, but it feels like a ticking time bomb with extensions not being updated at the same rate as VSCode. Also another issue I am starting to see is the lack of shared MCP servers. If I have VSCode, Cursor, and Claude open, each one is running its own instance of the MCP server. You can imagine that with a dozen or so MCP's, the memory footprint becomes quite large for no reason.
Cursor and other VSCode forks connect to Open VSX [1] for extensions. Barring some of the Microsoft extensions, I've found that pretty much all the extensions I use are available and kept up to date on Open VSX. Cursor seems to have enough funding to support their own variants of the Microsoft extensions, like Python and C++. The one issue I've run into is that the VSCode version Cursor uses is several months old, so…
You can change it back to use the normal Microsoft marketplace
Re: Cursor 1.0
#133Earlier quoted context omitted.
have you tried zed agent? how does it compare with cursor?
It’s getting better fast. It’s still needs refining but I have no issues spending the entire day in it
I've been getting rate limit errors with Zed (using my own Claude API) while the same query will work in Claude Code. So still some rough edges there.
Re: Cursor 1.0
#134I love Cursor, but it feels like a ticking time bomb with extensions not being updated at the same rate as VSCode. Also another issue I am starting to see is the lack of shared MCP servers. If I have VSCode, Cursor, and Claude open, each one is running its own instance of the MCP server. You can imagine that with a dozen or so MCP's, the memory footprint becomes quite large for no reason.
I just run two IDEs. Cursor is essentially only the wrapper for running agents. I still do my heavy lifting in Jetbrains products. It actually works out well because I can let Cursor iterate on a task while I review/tweak code.
I use the Claude Code plugin in PyCharm in the same way.
Re: Cursor 1.0
#135VSCode with extensions Copilot [autocomplete] + CLINE [AI chat] + FOAM [obsidian-esk markdown support] is goat. There's no way a closed-source alternative to going to compete with this.
I used Cline and Claude Code extensively for a project. Claude code is much better.
Interesting. For me Cline and Roo are king. I would use them exclusively if I could afford it. With Copilot Pro+ it goes a long way but still ends in rate limits down the road
Re: Cursor 1.0
#136Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Claude Code now comes with the $20 Pro subscription plan.
Re: Cursor 1.0
#137this is remarkably lowkey for a 1.0 of a big product. where is the splashy overproduced video? where is the promises of agi? where is the "we are just getting started" / "we cant wait to see what you'll build"? how do i know what to think if you aren't going to tell me what to think? edit: oh haha https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/1930358111677886677
We tried to make the video lowkey-ish! Appreciate any feedback if came off differently.
it was lighthearted sarcasm. congrats Michael, huge milestone
Re: Cursor 1.0
#138These just look like small updates. Doesn’t warrant a full version upgrade.
1.0 is not an upgrade, it's the first stable release. Usually it signifies the arrival of some amount of feature completeness and stability compared to the fast paced 0.x days. Of course semver doesn't really fit neatly most software let alone a user facing GUI application, but socially that's what they're trying to communicate with the 1.0.
Re: Cursor 1.0
#139Earlier quoted context omitted.
this maybe? https://liveswebench.ai/
Never heard SWE-agent until now, and seems to beat Aider (the tool I use) consistently. Does anyone know if it's GitHub-only or can it be used as a CLI (i.e., Aider replacement)?
Re: Cursor 1.0
#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
Until Claude Code becomes manageable price wise, I don’t think Cursor really sees them as their competition. I can burn the whole cursor subscription price in a single day with Claude Code.
I've found Emacs plus gptel very pleasant to use. And following the ethos of Emacs, it is backend agnostic and very malleable. Besides, if you want something inexpensive, using Gemini 2.0 Flash as a backend is completely free. Google provides an API key at no cost.
Ha, same. How do you use it? I tried all the fancy context management stuff multiple times, but I mostly just have a chat buffer open and copy paste stuff manually. Text wrangling is so damn efficient in Emacs. I pay around 10$ to Anthropic per month in API tokens for pretty heavy usage. With deliberate context management (I found keeping it small and focused vastly improves responses), cost is really not an issue.
Didn't try anything agentic within Emacs yet, don't find that helpful enough so far.